On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:53:33 -0600, dontthinkofspammingme@nospam.net
wrote:

>When users try to telnet to my sco 5.04 box they get the message
>connection refused. When i restart they can connect but after a few
>moments the connection is terminated and subsequent tries result in a
>connection refused error untill reboot and the same things happens
>again.
>
>I get them error is syslog, can't find terminal control database entry
>for line ttypxx
>
>I have tried the following
>
>On Experts-Exchange the "accepted answer" doesn't seem to apply to the
>problem.
>http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper...379.html#89291
>03
>
>On the A.P. Lawrence site I located the following information, but no
>resolution. The link pertaining to TA# 104588 doesn't work, but you
>can
>enter it at sco.com/ta to get the article.
>
>http://www.aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/951.html
>
>---
>The "can't find terminal control database entry for line ttypxx" is
>unrelated. It means that you have more pseudo ttys configured than
>the
>[deleted explative] C2 security abomination has inscribed in its
>auth/ttys
>database. See:
> http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104588 for the
>cerimony.
>---
>
>
>
>
>Any other ideas?
>Thanks



I figured it out. After trying to ping the terminals from the console
in the server room found about 95% packet loss,. Unplugged and
reseated the network cable and ping returned to 0% loss. This fixed
for most users. I had to scavenge and update my primary DNS to get
the remaining systems to ping through correctly,