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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:49:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, rsacrack@vex.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RSA Challenge Situation Report...
Message-ID:  <199704151049.MAA02370@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3352E2C0.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Apr 14, 97 07:06:56 pm"

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> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > Hi...
> > 
> >         As of 5:30ADT, here is how things are looking for the RSA Cracking
> > Challenge.  Notice the steady increase in computers on suck.it.ca *and*
> > the steady improvement of our standings...
> > 
> >  
> well I've started up 4 P6-200  machien son it but they always get 
> "connection refused" about 80% of the time they ask for a
> key or try report results..
> 
> at the moment it seems to be totally off-line

Yes, you're right. I started my PPRO yesterday afternoon and
after a couple of blocks being calculated I have
this in my log file:

get_keyspace: Connection refused
rc5-56-client: Error getting key.  
rc5-56-client: Sleeping 2 minutes...
rc5-56-client: The Bovine Proxy KeyServer (Build 1458)
rc5-56-client: Received Keyspace Mask 0x0000000FFFFFFF
rc5-56-client: Start Key 0x1E7AAA30000000, trying 268435456 keys.
rc5-56-client: Processed 251182.74 keys per second.
rc5-56-client: Keyspace Exhausted in 17.81 minutes.
rc5-56-client: [0x1E7AAA30000000 -> 0x1E7AAA3FFFFFFF]
end_keyspace: Connection refused
rc5-56-client: Notifying Key Server ``suck.it.ca''
rc5-56-client: Error notifying server.
rc5-56-client: Sleeping 1 minute...
end_keyspace: Connection refused
rc5-56-client: Notifying Key Server ``suck.it.ca''
rc5-56-client: Error notifying server.
rc5-56-client: Sleeping 1 minute...

> 
> 
> what gives?

The server seems to be down. 

> 
> julian
> 

--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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