[Info-vax] DECnet V proxy problem...

[John Santos]

In article <00A88600.42FC4D61 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  
@SendSpamHere.ORG says...> 
> In article <MPG.2421fffa570724c9989684 at news.verizon.net>, John Santos <john at egh.com> writes:
> >In article <mn.5d477d93f30278ce.86952 at brutele.be>,=20
> >marc.vandyck at brutele.be says...>=20
> >> John Santos pretended :
> >> > In article <503646d0-b755-449a-93c5-32ce701fda84
> >> > @w35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, info-vax at weaverconsulting.ca says...>=
> >=20
> >> >> On Mar 11, 3:45=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> >>> I don't know why but the following no longer functions:
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> HERE$ DIR HERE::
> >> >>> ... or ...
> >> >>> HERE$ DIR 0::
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> I can do:
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> HERE$ DIR THERE::
> >> >>> ... and ...
> >> >>> THERE$ DIR HERE::
> >> >>> successfully.
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> I have incoming and outgoing proxy on the FAL application.
> >> >>> I find (and delete) INTRUSION record whenever I try $DIR 0::
> >> >>> I have restarted the security server... all to no avail.
> >> >>> Anyone have any ideas?
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker =A0=20
> >> >>> =A0VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> =A0http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png
> >> >>>=20
> >> >>> =A0 "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
> >> >>=20
> >> >> In my distant memory I recall seeing this, but I have not touched a
> >> >> Phase V system in a number of years and when I did I did not spend
> >> >> much time with Phase V. It seems to me that there was a NCL command
> >> >> that started with FLUSH and had something to do with a NAMING CACHE
> >> >> that cleared this up. When we had the problem I phoned Compaq (I
> >> >> mentioned it was a long time ago) and the support person told me "In
> >> >> DECNet Phase V you can do no harm, and you will probably do something
> >> >> good, if you occasionally issue the command NCL FLUSH ... NAMING
> >> >> CACHE..." so I put that on a sign and hung it in the VMS area and once
> >> >> every few weeks we would issue the command on the Phase V nodes that
> >> >> we had.
> >> >>=20
> >> >> Peter
> >> >
> >> > IIRC, $ mcr ncl flush session control naming cache entry =3D "*"
> >> >
> >> > VAXman, maybe you've trigger breakin evasion?  Have you tried deleting
> >> > the intrusion records with "$ delete/intusion"?  (If you've got
> >> > something automated that keeps renewing the breakin evasion, or
> >> > if you are just impatient and keep re-trying, it might never time
> >> > out...)
> >> >
> >> > If this is the case, there may be an interesting bug, since I
> >> > don't think you should be able to trigger evasion using a decnet
> >> > proxy...  It should always work, and thus not ever bump the "failed
> >> > login" count.
> >>=20
> >> Rather
> >>=20
> >> $ mcr ncl flush session control naming cache entry "*"
> >>=20
> >> that is, without the "=3D" sign.
> >
> >It seems to accept (and ignore) the "=3D" sign.  The output looks
> >identical in either case.
> 
> The joys of quoted-pukeable.  Choosy posters choose plain text!

Arghh!!  I didn't realize it was doing this.  Bizzarely, it shows
the <equals><three><dog> when displaying your response but didn't
when I displayed my original post.

This is Gravity, which I've been using for years with no such
problems, but on a new (yech, blech) PC, and I don't think I got
all the posting options right.  Let's see if this = comes through
clean!


-- 
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.