From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 19 15:20:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA23661 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA23653 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA00604 for FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:20:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA16023; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:17:10 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:17:10 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2528: fetch(1)'s timeout is ridiculously short References: <199701191110.DAA27226@freefall.freebsd.org> <9701192239.AA13184@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9701192239.AA13184@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>; from Jean-Marc Zucconi on Jan 19, 1997 23:39:26 +0100 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > Maybe, but I have seen ftp sessions which never end. Not after 4 > hours, not even after 4 days. But then, the TCP connection was probably still alive, but the upper layers did no longer respond. > And you can always 'export FTP_TIMEOUT=14400'. No. I was voting for a saner default value. Something like at least half an hour. A value in the range of a few minutes might be okay if you've got a T3 at home, but if you depend on a modem that occasion- ally can drop carrier, it's impractical. In this case, 2/3 of the sheer amount of data have already been arrived by the time fetch thought it should abort. Of course, all this is only referring to an already _established_ connection. The timeout for the initial connection is okay. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)