[HECnet] NETMAPPER login attempts?

[Paul Koning]

Apparently VMS treats DECnet object authentication failure as login failure, which is faintly sensible since they use the same authentication scheme (username/password).

	paul

> On Aug 22, 2020, at 7:01 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> Hmm. But Zane mentioned login attempts? What's exactly in the log? Is it actually login attempts, or NICE requests?
> 
>  Johnny
> 
> On 2020-08-22 03:04, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Yes, that's the mapper, you can see it here: http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map
>> It sends NICE requests -- network management queries equivalent to these NCP commands:
>> 1. show executor characteristics
>> 2. show known circuits status
>> 3. show active nodes status
>> You will see this once a day, plus if there is a topology change reported to 28NH that involves your node.
>> paul
>>> On Aug 21, 2020, at 7:35 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com <mailto:healyzh at avanthar.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Paul,
>>> I’m pretty sure this is you.  It’s coming from 28nh (41.28).  What is it expecting?  I seem to remember a discussion on this, but can’t find it in my archives.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Zane
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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