According to Tony Crockford:
> To answer my own query:
> 
> The server gets swamped and the first document not found error causes
> htdig to assume that the server is down.
> 
> To get round it:
> 
> see "no server running redaux" in the archives. (briefly this is a
> feature, with no attribute to turn on or off, designed to speed up
> searching when a remote server is down - htdig skips it and moves on)

I don't find that thread in the archives, even now that the search is
working, which it wasn't when you posted this.  Do you have a URL to
guide us?

> Or if like me you are only indexing documents on the server on the same
> machine, use the local_urls attribute set to avoid the server
> altogether.
> 
> No problems now!

That's certainly the way to go if you're indexing local documents.  Still,
it's odd that your server gets swamped even when you set server_wait_time.

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