False unreachable?

[Andrew Fort]

Hi Ted,

Can you replicate with, or show us the contents of...

export NOPIPE=1
rancid -d my.device

You'll have a file called 'my.device.new' in the cwd afterwards, which may shed some more light.

-afort

>Subject: Re: False unreachable?
>   From: "Ted Bedwell" <ted at cw.net>
>   Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:05:49 -0400
>     To: <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
>
>I'm fairly sure this is not the problem. It happens at every polling
>interval (2 hours) without exception, and always works from the CLI. If it
>were a vty issue, you would expect it to occasionally go through. Any other
>ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>~~ted
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <jlewis at lewis.org>
>To: "Ted Bedwell" <ted at cw.net>
>Cc: <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
>Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 10:07 PM
>Subject: Re: False unreachable?
>
>
>> On Sat, 31 May 2003, Ted Bedwell wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >   I've have rancid running on 300+ devices. I have a few however claim
>that they are unreachable. I get the:
>> >
>> > "The following routers have not been successfully contacted for more
>> > than 4 hours"
>> >
>> > email on every polling cycle. The logs state:
>> >
>> > "my.device clogin error: Error: Connection Refused (telnet)"
>>
>> Is it possible at the instant rancid failed, the device was out of vty
>> interfaces?
>>
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