[pptp-server] the dreaded 619

[Kyle Hodgson]

I installed PoPToP on my Solaris 7/x86 machine last night, and I must say it went rather smoothly.  I just can't actually connect to it; I keep getting the dreaded error 619 the specified port is not connected message.  Of course I searched for this error and found that there are problems with nat (which I'll learn to fix with my ipf firewall later), so I dialed in to my work machine (Win2k) that's in the same ethernet with the pptpd server.  I got the same message.  Here is a dump of my pptpd.log, any help would be appreciated...

Jan 13 12:36:54 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection started
Jan 13 12:36:54 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Error reading ctrl packet length (bytes_ttl=0): Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 13 12:36:54 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: PPTP Control Message type 134511680 not supported.
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Allocating pty/tty pair
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Allocated pty/tty pair (/dev/ptyp0,/dev/ttyp0)
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19074]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Failed to launch PPP daemon.
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19074]: CTRL: PPPD launch failed!
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: GRE: read(fd=4,buffer=804ec40,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = I/O error
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(4,5)
Jan 13 12:36:56 armada pptpd[19073]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection finished
Jan 13 12:37:56 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection started
Jan 13 12:37:56 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Error reading ctrl packet length (bytes_ttl=0): Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 13 12:37:56 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: PPTP Control Message type 134511680 not supported.
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Allocating pty/tty pair
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Allocated pty/tty pair (/dev/ptyp0,/dev/ttyp0)
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19079]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Failed to launch PPP daemon.
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19079]: CTRL: PPPD launch failed!
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: GRE: read(fd=4,buffer=804ec40,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = I/O error
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(4,5)
Jan 13 12:37:59 armada pptpd[19078]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection finished
Jan 13 12:38:44 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection started
Jan 13 12:38:45 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Error reading ctrl packet length (bytes_ttl=0): Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 13 12:38:45 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: PPTP Control Message type 134511680 not supported.
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Allocating pty/tty pair
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Allocated pty/tty pair (/dev/ptyp0,/dev/ttyp0)
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19081]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Failed to launch PPP daemon.
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19081]: CTRL: PPPD launch failed!
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: GRE: read(fd=4,buffer=804ec40,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = I/O error
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(4,5)
Jan 13 12:38:47 armada pptpd[19080]: CTRL: Client 64.229.11.210 control connection finished
Jan 13 12:41:44 armada named[8666]: client 208.184.4.142#28563: query denied
Jan 13 12:41:44 armada last message repeated 2 times
Jan 13 12:45:17 armada named[8666]: client 208.184.4.142#39793: query denied


those last three lines appeared as I wrote this.  Looks like I'm getting probed ;)