[ale] Weird DSL problem...

[James P. Kinney III]

For the "reattach to a running process" part, screen is your friend! In
fact, the latest (Jan 2003) Linux Journal had a great article on the
wonderful uses of screen.

As for the DSL droppings, put some newspaper down and take it out for
walks more often.

:)


On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 21:25, John Wells wrote:
> I work part-time for a company in Vegas and do a lot of work ssh'ed into
> their Linux server.  The server is colloc'ed (through Remarkable Hosting,
> iirc).
> 
> The odd thing is, for some reason, connecting to their box almost always
> causes my DSL connection to go down or reset.  It may not happen
> immediately, but invariably it happens, usually within 30 seconds but
> sometimes I'll get 5-10 minutes before it goes down.  My DSL (through
> Bellsouth) doesn't exhibit this behavior at all, *unless* I'm connected to
> their box.  It's too repeatable to be a coincidence.
> 
> This is infuriating, as each time it happens my ssh's lock and I have to
> wait for the connection to come back up, re-ssh and then try to repeat
> whatever I was doing.
> 
> 1.  Does anyone have *any* idea what might be happening here, or know what
> I might do to investigate?
> 
> 2.  Is there any software out there that I could take advantage of that
> would allow my shell to continue to exist if my connection goes down? 
> i.e., I could "reattach" to the shell after logging back in through ssh?
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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