[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
    randy at fool.ya.rg.net's password: 

    RGnet /  PSGnet       Dallas/Google/Equinix
    fool.ya.rg.net 2011.07.05   +1 206 555 1212

    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