[706] in Hotline Meeting
RTs can't log in after being turned off for a while
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Wed Jun 6 01:54:01 1990
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 90 01:53:30 -0400
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, crlstaff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 20:35:32 EDT
Hi hotline,
When our RTs get turned off for any length of time (more than 4
minutes), they won't allow logins anymore. The specific symptom is
that kerberos refuses the login because the time-is-out-of-bounds.
This never used to happen.
The timed master on Meander, which serves the 18.80 network died. I
have fixed it and it is running now. I suspect that this problem has
been around for about 1 week.
I would say the problem started when Telecommunications "isolated" us
from the rest of the Building 11 net in late April or early may,
whenever the meltdown was that Jeff Schiller and others remember so
vividly. All the time servers are on the other part of the net and not
ours. No one saw the problem until the RTs wouldn't allow logins any
more. I note that the machines BOOT just fine and even activate. Only
at the time check of kerberos was the problem revealed.
So, how do we get a time master accessible to our newly localized subnet?
The entire 18.80 subnet was effected, you are no more localized today
then you were before the "meltdown." Your disconnection was only
temporary.
-Jeff
