[Info-vax] eisner.decuserve.org

[Bill deWindt]

Apologies for not cut and pasting specifics, I guess I was just initially shooting for anyone else who could say whether eisner was or wasn't having any issues. :) Here are the specifics:

Trying lynx from a machine here at my office in VA:

# lynx eisner.decuserve.org

Looking up eisner.decuserve.org first
Looking up eisner.decuserve.org
Making HTTP connection to eisner.decuserve.org
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://eisner.decuserve.org/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

ssh from the same machine at the office:

# ssh <USERNAME>@eisner.decuserve.org
ssh: connect to host eisner.decuserve.org port 22: Connection refused

Firefox from the same machine to https://eisner.decuserve.org/:

Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to eisner.decuserve.org. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

My office is on a Shentel circuit in Virginia, so to rule that out I tried from 2 different VMs I have hosted by Kamatera which are located in New York and had the same results. I also tried using eisner.decus.org and eisner.encompasserve.org since they all lookup to 148.51.202.51 just in case it was a filter setup via FQDN and the results are the same. Standard old-school ftp connects and just won't let you in, as expected:

# ftp eisner.decuserve.org
Connected to eisner.decuserve.org.
220 eisner.decus.org MultiNet FTP Server Process V5.6(17) at Wed 20-Sep-2023 3:03AM-EDT
Name (eisner.decuserve.org:billd): dewindt
331 User name (<USERNAME>) ok. Password, please.
Password:
520 Non-anonymous FTP disallowed; use SFTP
Login failed.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>

...and PMDF answers from both locations:

# telnet eisner.decuserve.org 25
Trying 148.51.202.51...
Connected to eisner.decuserve.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 Encompasserve.org -- Server ESMTP (PMDF V6.8#1529)
quit
221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

... so the machine is up, it just doesn't seem to allow me to establish a connection via ssh, http or https from either my machines locally or those living in the ether at Kamatera. The necessary ports also don't appear to be filtered off at first glance unless there is an f5 or something in the middle:

# nmap -sS eisner.decuserve.org
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-20 02:48 EDT
Nmap scan report for eisner.decuserve.org (148.51.202.51)
Host is up (0.067s latency).
rDNS record for 148.51.202.51: eisner.decus.org
Not shown: 983 closed ports
PORT     STATE    SERVICE
21/tcp   open     ftp
25/tcp   open     smtp
53/tcp   filtered domain
80/tcp   open     http
119/tcp  open     nntp
443/tcp  open     https
514/tcp  open     shell
515/tcp  open     printer
563/tcp  open     snews
705/tcp  open     agentx
993/tcp  open     imaps
995/tcp  open     pop3s
2000/tcp open     cisco-sccp
3333/tcp filtered dec-notes
4443/tcp open     pharos
5060/tcp open     sip
6000/tcp open     X11

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.44 seconds

Thanks for your time!
-Bill


On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 2:04:19 AM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > [...] most daemons on it just hang up on me. [...] 
> 
> As usual, showing actual actions (commands) with their actual results 
> (error messages, ...) can be more helpful than vague descriptions or 
> interpretations. For example, _which_ daemons are your "most daemons"? 
> 
> > [...] The webserver just crashes out on me with an unknown protocol 
> > error [...] 
> 
> When you did what, exactly? See "As usual, [...]", above. 
> 
> > [...] ssh refuses my connection. [...] 
> 
> Does that mean that you got a "connection refused" error, or what? 
> When you did what, exactly? See "As usual, [...]", above. 
> 
> Regarding EISNER and SSH, see: 
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/04PYktudpmE/m/es7vZCAEAQAJ