Subj : Polling a Node?
To   : Jeff Smith
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Fri Feb 02 2018 10:53 pm

Hi Jeff,

>I have noticed a situation regarding polling that I was  curious about. I have
> setup a system on another PC here.  I have added the necessary [Node Remap]
> connection info.

> The problem is that if I do a manual poll as in Alt-P the poll is executed as
> expected. Once completed it is executed again, and again, and again,...

>I am forced to terminate the poll by issuing the command bbbs bom d <Address>.
> At which point the polling terminates.

> The question that occurs to me is BBBS is possibly not seeing the poll as
>successful and continues to keep trying. Or, the polled system isn't respondin
> in a manner that BBBS sees as successful and so BBBS retries.

> Anyone else seen this type of behavior?

It happens here once in a while... not that often.  It happens to my bbbs 
mailer when it cannot complete the transfer.  Typically it is because of some 
problem with the node bbbs is trying to dial - it could be any one of the 
following:

#The node bbbs is trying to dial has it's own problems and needs to
be reset by the sysop... [often]
#There was some typo in external.bbb's remap section [ok, I'm not perfect <g>]

Hope this helps :)

Take care,
Janis


> Jeff

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