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[Jeffrey Nowakowski <jeffno@ccs.neu.edu>]

I get garbled output when telnetting to the metaserver.  Also,
connecting to pickled was failing badly at the same time.  Could it be
related?  I'm including my connection attempts to pickled, as well as
the metaserver output.

-Jeff

Attempt #1
--
Calling pickled.fox.cs.cmu.edu on port 2592.
Got connection.
Reading default values from /home/jeff/.xtrekrc ...
Done reading default values.
1) Got read() of 0. Server dead
1) read(): Success
Whoops!  We've been ghostbusted!
Pray for a miracle!
Waiting for connection (port 10987). 

Attempt #2
--
Calling pickled.fox.cs.cmu.edu on port 2592.
Got connection.
Packet fragment.  Server must be dead
Server is dead!


Metaserver Output
--
Trying 128.149.33.188...
Connected to metaserver.netrek.org.
Escape character is '^]'.

*** Connected to MetaServerII v1.0.3 on port 3522 ***
Date in Pasadena, CA is Fri Jun 18 21:25:46 1999
E-mail administrative requests to unbelver@us.netrek.org.
Up continuously for 3 days (data spans 43 days).
Retry periods (in minutes):  down:30 empty:15 open:5 queue:10

Other interesting MetaServerII ports:
        3520 - Original METASERVER format
        3521 - New and improved format
        1080 - Web browser HTML format
        3523 - News & information
        3525 - MetaServerII config file
        3530 - RSA key list

Server: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [B], port 2592 (open)
Last checked at 21:24:34 (1 minute ago).

There is 1 person playing here.

  Type Rank       Name              Login
F0 CA  Ensign     Teller            workstat@c58449-a.sttln1


Server: hp06.ee.ualberta.ca [P], port 2592 (2)
Last checked at 21:21:21 (4 minutes ago).

There is 1 person playing here.

  Type Rank       Name              Login
K0 CA  Recruit    Naked Man         jbayes@bronze37.mminte


Server: hockey.netrek.org [H], port 2592 (2)
Last checked at 21:21:09 (4 minutes ago).

There are 2 people playing here.

  Type Rank       Name              Login
Ig SC  Ensign     Puck              Robot@Nowhere
Ih SB  Ensign     Announcer         Robot@Nowhere


Server: pickled.fox.cs.cmu.edu [B], port 2592 (open)
Last checked at 21:25:14 (0 minutes ago).

There are 7 people playing here.

  Type Rank       Name              Login
F0 BB  Ensign     Cromax            Bozo@203.30.71.171
F2 AS  Captain    RFC_0959          sniegows@#cs.ucdavis.edu
F5 CA  Ensign     guest             rcsguest@#02.acs.rpi.edu
R1 CA  Ensign     guest             Alan Chiu@#.wave.home.com
R3 CA  Ensign     @#23.rcs.rpi.ed   4
F
4
3
JAG
Base#.ix.netcom.com@#.ix.netcom.com
Rb SC  Ensign     guest             bflat@#.du.nwlink.com


Server: continuum.us.netrek.org [B], port 2592 (quozl@us.netrek.org)
Last checked at 21:25:34 (0 minutes ago).

There is a wait queue with 10 people on it.

(player list from port 2591; may not be 100% accurate)
  Type Rank       Name              Login
F1 CA  Lieutenan  guest             xen@#94.lax.jps.net
F4 CA  Lt. Cmdr.  guest             ****@#tco2.da.uu.net
F5 CA  Captain    kateoh            kateoh@#P.Stanford.EDU
F6 CA  Commander  CableTron         Bozo@#e.mediaone.net
F8 CA  Lt. Cmdr.  guest             test1@#dialup.rcn.com
F9 DD  Lt. Cmdr.  Shorin            nec@#olumbus.rr.com
Fb CA  Commander  morf              nme@#chester.rr.com
Fc BB  Lt. Cmdr.  Tom Lactose       akorbut@162.70.207.229
R0 DD  Lieutenan  Galileo           Galileo@#smartworld.net
R2 SC  Flt. Capt  Zex               charlie@#e1d59.a2000.nl
R3 BB  Lieutenan  RA                Bozo@#.adinet.com.uy
R7 CA  Ensign     The Horror        Gene Loielo@#l1.nj.home.com
Ra DD  Lieutenan  EverCool          Chris Powell@#mindspring.com
Rd CA  Rear Adm.  Le Sale Boche     dlewis@#beck.clark.net
Re CA  Flt. Capt  apoptosis         jive@#e.dsl.visi.com
Rf CA  Ensign     Tott Doneeta      achtungbaby@#h.ca.da.uu.net



That's it!