Your message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:27:50 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#145612: slrn: Continue reading news after dialup
account is back up with different IP
has caused the Debian Bug report #145612,
regarding slrn: Continue reading news after dialup account is back up with
different IP
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Package: slrn
Version: 0.9.7.4-5
Severity: wishlist
I am connected to the Internet via a dialup account, which I have
set to time out after approximately one minute (because charging
is done by the minute). When the connetion goes down while I am
reading news, and slrn is looking for the next article, the net
comes up again, as assigning me a different IP number. However,
slrn cannot deal with this situation: it hangs and needs to be
killed and restarted.
One way of dealing with that would be to have slrn itself keep
the connection open. Another would be to restart the connection
to the news server, picking things up where they were left.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux meiner 2.2.20 #2 Sun Nov 4 23:47:51 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages slrn depends on:
ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 1.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii slang1 1.4.4-7.2 The S-Lang programming library - r
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On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:15:24PM +0200, Thomas Schultz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> * Joey Hess <[email protected]> [Fre 2002-05-03 18:32] :
> > Thomas Koenig wrote:
> >> And this is the point when I usually get impatient, waiting for two
> >> minutes for a reconnect :-)
> > Hmm, I will defer to Thomas Schultz, if it were me I'd perhaps lower that
> > select timeout or make it configurable. OTOH a keystroke to force an
> > immediate reconnect still seems like a good idea too.
>
> It's a bit difficult to find a default that is sensible for everyone -
> there are people with high-latency connections and making slrn "give up" a
> connection too soon might make the program unusable for them. Currently,
> it's a compile-time setting in the depth of slrnfeat.h:
>
> <--->
> /* You may want to chose a smaller number when using a dialup connection
> * with a dynamical IP address; however, do not make it too small to avoid
> * unnecessary re-connects! */
> #define SLRN_SLTCP_TIMEOUT_SECS 120
> <--->
>
> However, I put the problem down and will find out how difficult
> implementing a more elegant solution (i.e. allowing the user to interrupt
> the select call, causing a re-connect) would be.
Closing the bug. Internet availability/cost has improved since 2002
and for such a setup using a local server like leafnode is much more
sensible anyway. Everyone else can fine-tune SLRN_SLTCP_TIMEOUT_SECS
Cheers,
Moritz
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