From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 1 11:40:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27305 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27299 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA13821 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:26:12 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sun, 1 Dec 96 22:26:12 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.3/8.8.3) id WAA00759; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:26:07 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <199612011926.WAA00759@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: cvsup can't find host - sometimes In-Reply-To: <961201123255_1751372447@emout01.mail.aol.com> from "StevenR362@aol.com" at "Dec 1, 96 12:32:56 pm" To: StevenR362@aol.com Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:26:07 +0300 (MSK) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. I saw it too without any overload on my 28.8K dialup connection. It not only freefall.cdrom.com but cvsup.nl.freebsd.org too. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/