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echo: suprafax
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from: MARTIN SCHILLER
date: 1996-07-06 07:52:00
subject: Dialing Mode Hang

I had an unusual problem arise and I'd appreciate comments. Following an 
incoming mail call my modem (Supra SFM external) apparently got hung. The 
display indicated DI the display that it shows when it is dialing out. I 
wasn't there when it started, but I noticed it about 5 hours after it 
occurred and traced it back in my logs. Binkley kept on cycling through the 
outbound trying to dial (the logs showed DIALING......end of connection 
attempt.) The following cut shows the last call received before the problem 
and the following few attempts.
======cut from log===========
# 05 Jul 15:34:03 BINK Ring
# 05 Jul 15:34:16 BINK Connect 26400/Arq
* 05 Jul 15:34:17 BINK Eat My Shorts (1:143/225@fidonet.org)
* 05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK Remote Uses InterMail 2.29f
: 05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK SysOp: Mike Kolbly from Sunnyvale Ca
  05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK Phone: 1-408-737-1885
  05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK Flags: H16,V32b,V42b
  05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK Created flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00e1.BSY
: 05 Jul 15:34:18 BINK Session method: ZedZap
+ 05 Jul 15:34:19 BINK CPS: 607 (607 bytes)  Efficiency: 22%
+ 05 Jul 15:34:19 BINK Received-Z/32 C:\Bb\Binkley\Inbound\00000019.fr1
+ 05 Jul 15:34:24 BINK CPS: 1488 (4464 bytes)  Efficiency: 56%
+ 05 Jul 15:34:24 BINK Sent-Z/32 u:\bb\binkley\outbound\0000001b.fr1
  05 Jul 15:34:24 BINK File u:\bb\binkley\outbound\0000001b.fr1 truncated
  05 Jul 15:34:24 BINK Deleted flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00e1.BSY
* 05 Jul 15:34:25 BINK End of WaZOO/EMSI Session
  05 Jul 15:34:30 BINK Received: 1/607 Sent: 1/4464 Total: 2/5071 CPS: 266
* 05 Jul 15:34:30 BINK Seconds: 19  Tariff: 0  Fee: 0  System: 1:143/225@fi
.org
# 05 Jul 15:34:31 BINK Transmitted Bytes    = 5228
# 05 Jul 15:34:31 BINK Received Bytes       = 1050
# 05 Jul 15:34:31 BINK Ok
: 05 Jul 15:34:44 BINK Exit after receiving mail with errorlevel 10
+ 05 Jul 15:34:44 BINK end, BinkleyTerm-OS/2 Ver. 2.60 -IBMC/2
+ 05 Jul 15:34:58 BINK begin, BinkleyTerm-OS/2 Ver. 2.60 -IBMC/2
* 05 Jul 15:45:38 BINK Processing node 1:143/0@fidonet.org -- Silicon Valley
  05 Jul 15:45:38 BINK Created flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f0000.BSY
: 05 Jul 15:45:38 BINK Dialing 879-0906
+ 05 Jul 15:47:03 BINK End of connection attempt
  05 Jul 15:47:03 BINK Deleted flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f0000.BSY
* 05 Jul 15:47:14 BINK Processing node 1:143/237@fidonet.org -- S C B U G
  05 Jul 15:47:14 BINK Created flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00ed.BSY
: 05 Jul 15:47:14 BINK Dialing 379-3391
+ 05 Jul 15:48:39 BINK End of connection attempt
  05 Jul 15:48:39 BINK Deleted flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00ed.BSY
* 05 Jul 15:49:01 BINK Processing node 1:143/239@fidonet.org -- Pafinder Bbs
  05 Jul 15:49:01 BINK Created flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00ef.BSY
: 05 Jul 15:49:01 BINK Dialing 246-1451
+ 05 Jul 15:50:26 BINK End of connection attempt
  05 Jul 15:50:26 BINK Deleted flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f00ef.BSY
* 05 Jul 15:50:53 BINK Processing node 1:143/15@fidonet.org -- Microbbs
  05 Jul 15:50:53 BINK Created flagfile C:\Bb\Binkley\Outbound\008f000f.BSY
============end cut==============
This cut shows the last call received before the problem and a few of the 
following attempts.
The display never changed from DI. I cleared the condition by powering off 
the modem. 
I have recently flashed to the 1.44-12 code. The only change that I can think 
of that I had made to my configuration was to send the %Q2 command from the 
aftercall verb in Binkley.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Whatever insights you can provide 
will be appreciated.
Regards, Martin 
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