Hi Clarence, the problem persists with all three programs I use.  I am at
the hospital now today, and have brought the laptop and will try and see
what happens later on today.





On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Clarence wrote:

> Hi Jeff and the group,
> I have never heard of anyone blocking telnet.  It is usually the
> responcibility of the system manager to stop the service, which simply
> causes the server to refuse telnet connections.  Since the period is so
> short, I suspect that you have a problem with your telnet client.  You might
> try another client.  I use a program called termpro.  I like it, and it
> does work ok with speech.
> I hope this helps.
> 73s,
> Clarence
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic, but need help trouble shooting telnet connection
> problem
>
>
> > Hi Clarence and the group.  Do you think that this was something on
> > Comcast's end?  We don't have the time to play around with the modem or
> > anything like that, and I am lucky if I get to have JFW read through a
> > screen with messages and who they are from without having it drop.  I have
> > resolved to just manually scrol the messages, and to check them that way
> > for now.  People may think that I am a bit strange, but I still believe in
> > telnet and shell accounts, even in this day in age with Windows and
> > advances in screen readers.  As for at work where I volunteer at now which
> > is a Children's Hospital in Michigan I telnet from there all the time and
> > have never had a problem or anyone say anything to me about it.  I know
> > that in some places telneting is a big "no-no", but I have yet to run into
> > some place that blocks you from doing it.  As for the rest of my
> > connections like IE or my VPN connection which allows me to check my
> > hospital E-mail from home it has behaved itself perfectly, and this is
> > usually a problem with wireless connections.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Clarence wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jeff and the group,
> >> There are two possibilities.  The first one is what Lou said.  The server
> >> is
> >> configured to terminate any connection that is inactive for a period of
> >> time.  We still do this at work on one server.  The other one is a bit
> >> more
> >> difficult to explain.  But, it goes something like this.  Some firewalls
> >> are
> >> configured to terminate connections that are made thru them when the
> >> conection has been inactive for a period of time.  The pix firewall is
> >> one
> >> such animal.  The connection isn't really terminated, but is dropped from
> >> the internal tables of the firewall.  It is possible that this to free up
> >> memory space in the firewall.  I know that this is a poor explaination.
> >> But
> >> I also know that this happens to me at work a bit if I telenet into a
> >> system
> >> that is behind such a firewall.  The best way to avoid this is to hit a
> >> key
> >> every 10 minutes or so.  If the connection is dropped, you can hit the
> >> ctrl/] key combination to break the connection and log in again.
> >>
> >> 73s,
> >> Clarence
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:45 AM
> >> Subject: off topic, but need help trouble shooting telnet connection
> >> problem
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi everyone, I have posted this issue to the blind-l list, and am still
> >> > trying to figure out this problem out.  I currently am getting to this
> >> > E-mail account here via a telnet connection, and I have always found it
> >> > to
> >> > be very helpful, especially when I am not at my home PC and I want to
> >> > access my mail from some place else.  However, I have had a problem
> >> > when
> >> > telneting in to this account from home and sometimes when I am in Pine.
> >> > What is happening is is that after a period of inactivity this
> >> > connection
> >> > will stop responding to my commands, and all of the rest of my Internet
> >> > connections are wroking fine.  I have done a ping and a tracerout to
> >> > this
> >> > ISP I am posting from now, but with no luck.  I don't have this problem
> >> > from other computers like at work, but this only appears to be a Pine
> >> > issue.  Also, I am telneting into here from Comcast, and I am wondering
> >> > if
> >> > this may be part of the problem?  Also, does anyone know of other
> >> > telnet
> >> > cites I could try out and compare to this one?
> >>
>