Using Wildblue.vps FAP Script -- What happened?

[Spice300]

Originally Posted by WildBlueGhost

Will this work for all NRTC domains also?

As far as I know it works for all WB users. It probably does not work with a Dish Network customer number, but it might if Dish network customers use their primary email address.

[boofus]

Originally Posted by Spice300

Boofus, the Duluth DNS server or perhaps your local DNS cache may not contain an entry for attwb.net. To make the AT&T FAP server respond you could try putting the following entry in your hosts file:

216.126.204.65 attwb.net

Spice, I tried adding to the hosts file. STILL can't ping it. I can't even ping it using the actual IP address. But I DO thank you for the suggestion.

Worse, the link provided in the other thread (from JimShoe) that works really well is an SSL link. The linux wget command (as I have it installed in my router) doesn't handle httpS URL's.

Damn, I hate these WB types. It was all working so well for me until a few days ago.

I'm actually so disgusted over this, that I may cancel. I got a free dialup account last nite (limited to 10 hrs per month) from Netzero just to test the speed/response time. For interactive browsing (incredibly) it doesn't seem all that much slower.

Cheers (I guess)



Boo

[Jim Shoe]

[quote=boofus;75439]
Worse, the link provided in the other thread (from JimShoe) that works really well is an SSL link. The linux wget command (as I have it installed in my router) doesn't handle httpS URL's.
/QUOTE]

try using "wget --no-check-certificate" should let wget use ssl.

[Spice300]

Originally Posted by boofus

STILL can't ping it.

The address is not pingable but you should be able to do a trace route that fails on the last hop. I am mystified about why the AT&T FAP server does not return results for you.

When I test it, AT&T's FAP server returns:

<graph caption="Customer: xxxxxxxxxx@wildblue.net" xaxisname="Figures Shown Reflect Data Usage in the Last 30 Days" yAxisName="Data Usage" bgColor="E3ECF6" showGridBg="1" showCanvas="1" numdivlines="4" decimalPrecision="0" zeroPlaneColor="CCCCCC" zeroPlaneAlpha="40" numberSuffix="MB">
<set name="Actual Usage Upload" value="237" color="007CC2"/>
<set name="Usage Threshold Upload" value="5000" color="9CA279"/>
<set name="Actual Usage Download" value="2315" color="007CC2"/>
<set name="Usage Threshold Download" value="17000" color="9CA279"/>
</graph>

[JJS]

Thank you Spice...
I have been without my figures for 3 days... Your new link works... Thank you Thank you Thank you...
JJS

[equivocal]

Originally Posted by Spice300

The NRTC FAP server is the one that is read when users who have WB service through the NRTC access their admintool page. The NRTC requested that I not post this URL over concern that the server would be overloaded if too many users attempt to access it.

Presumably the thing admintool contacts to get a fresh number and not the thing that returns the numbers it's been collecting. The kludge I have now generates all the load of inquiring from the secret server plus the load needed to spew all my personal details (password, address, coordinates, installer's thoughts) across the internet.

[boofus]

Originally Posted by Spice300

The address is not pingable but you should be able to do a trace route that fails on the last hop. I am mystified about why the AT&T FAP server does not return results for you.

Not Pingable? Why not? If a tracert goes all the way through, I thought any site would always answer a ping

Originally Posted by Spice300

As a test try accessing Ann's FAP meter with:

http://www.attwb.net/content/fap-sso/proxy_username.asp?user_name=ann@wildblue.net

Tried..... Timed out in browser

but here's a tracerout:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Bill>tracert www.attwb.net

Tracing route to www.attwb.net [216.126.204.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 1606 ms 1330 ms 1669 ms 10.44.0.1
3 1443 ms 1401 ms 1335 ms 10.231.20.1
4 1712 ms 1200 ms 1161 ms 10.231.30.33
5 1183 ms 1153 ms 1225 ms 10.231.30.1
6 1687 ms 1157 ms 1311 ms 10.231.100.2
7 1166 ms 1157 ms 1180 ms 10.231.110.2
8 1278 ms 1160 ms 1124 ms dlt-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [65.125.218.61]
9 1193 ms 1230 ms 1149 ms dlt-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.165.1]
10 1164 ms 1198 ms 1199 ms des-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.70]
11 1235 ms 1197 ms 1123 ms des-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.159.13]
12 1201 ms 1158 ms 1160 ms kcm-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.66]
13 1253 ms 1194 ms 1265 ms slc-core-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.20.133]
14 1235 ms 1277 ms 1262 ms slc-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.131.5]
15 1256 ms 1175 ms 1428 ms 63.226.73.38
16 670 ms 1264 ms 882 ms 205-208-208-5.ispnetbilling.com [205.208.208.5]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Bill>

Thanks for your interest/help.

Jim Shoe the option you suggested is not supported by my version of wget (as embedded in DD-WRT). I may get the source for wget and try to compile it for the LinkSys with SSL support enabled; but damn I hate to go to those lengths.

Regards

Boo

[Spice300]

Originally Posted by boofus

Not Pingable? Why not? If a tracert goes all the way through, I thought any site would always answer a ping

Devices can be programmed not to respond to pings (ICMP packets) while being allowed to pass them along. For example, Windows Firewall allows responding to be enable or disabled. If you ping any of the devices in your trace route from and including hop 2 to hop 7, they will not respond while the device at hop 8 will.

Pings that use TTL decrementing to zero to generate a failure response, like used by Ping Plotter, have a better chance of getting a reply.

Try accessing the AT&T FAP server using a web based proxy, such as O Tunnel.

[boofus]

Originally Posted by Spice300

Devices can be programmed not to respond to pings (ICMP packets) while being allowed to pass them along.

My bad..... I wasn't thinking. I was well aware that many firewalls reject ping requests. Guess I'm so damn frustrated in fighting with this for DAYS, that I lost my head.

Originally Posted by Spice300

Try accessing the AT&T FAP server using a web based proxy, such as O Tunnel.

I just did so from wget in my router and (MIRACLE) it worked!

All I gotta do now is re-write the code that parses the return message since it appears not to be the same format as the URL I used to use (before they broke it).

But that's a minor detail. I just gotta see if I can get it done before the dirty $#^$@^#&'s change it agin!!!

Well, Spice.... Thanks for all the help/interest. I owe one to all you guys.

Boo

[JJS]

Spice,

Your new link is not working anymore (at least for me)... Any suggestions????

[Spice300]

The AT&T FAP server is not currently working for me either as it returns a response that I have not seen before:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01fb'

An exception occurred: 'Send'

/content/fap-sso/proxy_username.asp, line 16

[Spice300]

The AT&T FAP server is working again. As Makaka has said, it operates intermittently.