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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: 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:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 19 03:10:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Feb 3 09:47:23 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb  3 09:48:51 PST 1997
>Originator:     J Wunsch
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>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.
:-)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wollman 
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 3 09:47:23 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
I got rid of the timeout when I reworked fetch. 
>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.
 
 
