Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.2.1, TCP connect failure never times out | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:17:47 +0000 (GMT) |
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> 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?
Its about 15 minutes it gives up. The timeouts are non standards specified. Applications should be using alarms if they care
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