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To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvsup can't find host - sometimes
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In a message dated 96-12-01 04:44:13 EST, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
(Christoph Kukulies) writes:

> Parsing supfile "/home/kuku/ports-supfile"
>  Looking up address of freefall.cdrom.com
>  Unknown host "freefall.cdrom.com"
>  
>  (this is from a cvsup -L 2 cvsupfile | mail I send to myself when cvsup
>  is finished)
>  
>  Pinging freefall works fine. I'm just wondering whether this is a
>  network problem (load, nameservers unreachable or some such) or
>  if it might be a cvsup problem since the lookup is done by the
>  program and the name search might be not 'hard enough'.
>  
   I get this also on a 14.4 dialup connection while doing a couple of
simultaneous ftp's.   It seems to be the result of a slow/overloaded link
and a timeout.

Steve