Failed. Service unavailable

[SteveP]

I appear to have the same problem. Last good connection was early on the 28/09/08. Up until that point, it seemed to be working fine. A reboot had no effect. Is this problem widespread or should I be doing some detailed fault finding. IP connection from the Tivo seems fine.

Thanks Steve

[vex]

I went reading here about transparent proxies:
http://www.oztivo.net/twiki/bin/view...entProxyServer

i went through all this last year being pretty shure my isp didnt use such a thing, did these changes to the tivo files and now i can make calls again give it a go:


1. The easiest and generally best method.
You need to manually edit the config files which name the Emulator (See HowToEditFilesUsingJoe for help on editing). These arer /etc/oztivo.conf and /etc/tclient.conf. oztivo.conf may not exist on some old versions of the OzTiVo image, if this is the case, then just ignore this step. You will need to telnet into your oztivo and do the following:

run the command "rw" to make the disk writable;
use an editor (e.g the joe editor) and edit /etc/oztivo.conf (if it exists): change emulatorport=80 to emulatorport=9090 and
use an editor and edit /etc/tclient.conf: find and change the line starting with #127::65.49.60.197:80::: and change it to 127::65.49.60.197:9090::: then change the line with 127::127.0.0.1:8000::: to #127::127.0.0.1:8000:::
run the command "ro" to make the disk read-only;
reboot the box. and try a daily call.

maybe or isps are mucking around
good luck with it i hope it has fixed my probs ? only time will tell

[SteveP]

Hi Vex - Thanks for your response. It wasn't the proxy, but you got me thinking.

Turns out that I could not ping www.oztivo.net although I could ping the IP (65.49.60.197) directly owing to the name server in /etc/resolv.conf not appearing to work.

It was 61.88.88.88 (ns.optus.net.au) so I changed it to the DNS server I use for bigpond cable and now everything is fine. I'm not sure if I missed specifying the DNS during setup and why it suddenly stopped working.

Looks like either the Optus name server is not working, or they got tired of providing service to Telstra clients

Steve

[DavidH]

There is something weird going on. I'm having the same problem and have had for a few days now.

Making the changes that Vex put in his post made it work this morning but then down again as I post this. Changing DNS hasn't done anything in my case.

I suggest that there is something up with www.oztivo.net