Queries to non-existant hosts (www.somedumbhost.com) come return in a
timely manner. This may be a problem with Redhat's ISP
Brad
At 01:09 PM 2/3/99 -0500, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
>RH5.2 w/2.2.1, aiming at any random host that's unreachable:
>
> [1053] [12:51:43] beaver:~> telnet news.redhat.com nntp
> Trying 199.183.24.231...
> [ minutes pass ]
> [ drumming fingers on desk ]
> [ finally hit ^C ]
>
> [1054] [12:58:54] beaver:~>
>
>I first noticed this because Gnus inside XEmacs was trying to make
>essentially this same connection, hanging XEmacs entirely as a result.
>
>It seems to be generally the case for me, that attempts to contact
>unavailable hosts w/TCP just don't ever give up and return ETIMEDOUT.
>
>Is my experience unusual? Or is something seriously wrong?
>
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