[rancid] can you hear me now?

[Randy Bush]

[ names changed to protect the guilty ]

mail sez

The following routers have not been successfully contacted for
more than 4 hours.
-rw-r----- 1 rancid staff 6303 Jan 12 19:16 fool.ya.rg.net

but

foolme.psg.com:/usr/home/rancid> /usr/local/libexec/rancid/clogin fool.ya.rg.net
fool.ya.rg.net
spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l randy fool.ya.rg.net
***@fool.ya.rg.net's password:

RGnet / PSGnet Dallas/Google/Equinix
fool.ya.rg.net 2011.07.05 [phone]

fool.ya#
fool.ya#q
Connection to fool.ya.rg.net closed.

and log sez

Trying to get all of the configs.
fool.ya.rg.net: End of run not found
! No cable
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 1.
fool.ya.rg.net: End of run not found
! No cable
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 2.
fool.ya.rg.net: End of run not found
! No cable
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 3.
fool.ya.rg.net: End of run not found
! No cable
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 4.
fool.ya.rg.net: End of run not found
! No cable

it's only an oob 2511, so extremely slow with the ssh login. but it has
been working for a long time. and there are three other 2511s about
which rancid is not whining.

hmmm. rancid just got upgraded to 2.3.6 with a freebsd portupgrade.

randy