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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:06:02 +0100 (MET)
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: bin/2528: fetch(1)'s timeout is ridiculously short
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>Number:         2528
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fetch(1)'s timeout is ridiculously short
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 19 03:10:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     J Wunsch
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

(irrelevant)

>Description:

>How-To-Repeat:

Drop modem carrier while fetching something.

>Fix:
	
Don't imply a timeout of its own.  A TCP connection has a timeout in
the range of 4 hours, and i fail to see a reason why an application
should abort an otherwise intact TCP connection.  We are not Windows.
:-)
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/.
Receiving cvsup-14.1.1.tar.gz (197045 bytes): 67%
fetch: Timeout
>> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

My ISP's link dropped carrier, and i had to wait a minute or two until
their machine was up again.  (Since i'm also my ISP, i know that we've
got crappy hardware there. :)  After redialing, see above.  fetch gave
up, and aborted the intact TCP connection.