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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> Sometimes grex has problems for a few hours and perhaps you were just
> statistically unlucky?   I just telnetted twice to grex with the telnet
> program provided with BL2 and connected immediately.  Please try again.
> Did you try Windows telnet /Linux telnet /Windows/Linux alternately
> within a few minutes and Windows worked but Linux did not?
> If you still have problems I will report this to staff.
>
Never, at any time that I've tried logging in from a Linux machine, has it
worked.  I've tried probably 20 - 25 times, at various times of night and
day.  Every time I have tried from a Win machine, it has worked.  I've
never gotten the "connection closed by freign host" message using a Win
machine (tried this 3 or 4 times probably).  One of the individuals from
the IRC channel tried it from a Linux machine, then a Win machine,
apparently in immediate succession.  It would fail (with the same error
I'm getting, I presume) from the Linux machine, but got a login prompt
from the Win machine.

I just tried logging in using ssh.  I got an ominous warning, as follows:

me@mycomputer:$ ssh www.grex.org
The authenticity of host 'www.grex.org (216.93.104.34)' can't be established.
RSA1 key fingerprint is 74:4c:1e:86:04:2a:ac:ab:c2:cd:32:ff:19:76:80:fc.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no
Host key verification failed.
me@mycomputer:$

Afterward, I answered "yes" and was able, finally, to login using ssh.
But telnet is failing under Linux.  Maybe it has to do with the
authenticity problem?

James