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?
>>