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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

5737.0. "Corruption?" by BHAJEE::JAERVINEN (Ora, the Old Rural Amateur) Mon Feb 24 1997 14:02

    Something wrong with this conference?
    
    I just see the last unread note when I open this, but after that,
    nothing happens. Deleting it in my notebook and reentering doesn't seem
    to help.
    
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5737.1BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurMon Feb 24 1997 14:058
    ...but apparently I can enter notes and replies. I just can't get
    anywhere - not iwth 'next unseen', not with explicit note numbers,
    things just hang for minutes, then 'network partner exited'. This
    network partner is alsoe getting excited...
    
    
    ;-)
    
5737.2BUSY::SLABA cross upon her bedroom wall ...Mon Feb 24 1997 14:0811
    
    	I read your question and then typed in some numbers at random, and
    	everything was fine.
    
    	Then I did a SET SEEN/BEFORE=TODAY and the system hung when I tried
    	a NEXT UNSEEN ... but might have been coincidental because I did a
    	CTRL Y and got back in and did the same thing, and everything was
    	fine.
    
    	So, basically, I think it's just you.  8^)
    
5737.316.185.96.117::OraThe Old Rural AmateurTue Feb 25 1997 01:3816
After some more research, others in Europe confirm access problems to US
notesfiles (see e.g. HUMANE::DIGITAL).

About a third or maybe half of the conferences seem to have access problems
via DECnet (but TCP/IP access seems ok - I'm writing this with Netnotes
on my PC).

The symptoms I get is either a 'network partnet exited' even before the 
first unseen note is shown, or the same message when trying to go anywhere
after the first unseen has been shown. If you get in, entering new 
notes/replies seems to be no problem - you just can't read them... ;-)

It can't have anything to do with notebook corruption or some such - the
problem is the same with or without a notebook, from different DECnet
nodes.

5737.4Might be thisSUTRA::KINNARIPasi Kinnari, CCS/ENOC, DTN 828-5624Tue Feb 25 1997 01:488
    
    
    There is a DECnet problem at the moment in Easynet, which might be a
    reason for this. Anyway, you may want to log a call through your
    calldesk.
    
    //pasi
    
5737.5BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurTue Feb 25 1997 04:312
    Seems to work again.... (since Central European lunchtime).
    
5737.6PPP links across Atlantic at faultMARVIN::RIGBYNo such thing as an alpha betaTue Feb 25 1997 14:349
The problem was the PPP links over the Atlantic which, unfortunatly, had decided
that the  Maximum SDU to be transmitted from the US was a mere 578 bytes. IP and
originated OSI were OK because the routers just fragmented the packets but
PhaseIV (and PhaseIV translated to OSI) can't be fragmented and the packets were
dropped. As a result any FULL phaseIV packet got dropped every time and NSP
would always drop the connection, anything less than completely full squeezed
under the 578 boundary and arrived in Europe. (More US export restrictions !-)

The links have been fixed and service appears to have been restored.
5737.7BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurWed Feb 26 1997 00:562
    Thanks for the explanation...