dynamic ip (Re: Gnus Memory usage)

[Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com>]

> Mark Denovich <madst38@pitt.edu> writes:
> > Not so.  I am forced to use Dynamic-IP PPP.  Thus my IP address is
> > never the same after disconnect.  Sgnus and just about every other app
> > handle this very poorly, the exception being Netscape.

the main reason netscape handles it is because http needs a new
connection for every data transfer.  netscape news handles dynamic ip
about as well as gnus does (automatic reconnect only on connection
shutdown).

Lars:
> I don't know exactly what I should do about it.  Gnus should
> definitely figure out that something odd is going on when it sends out
> commands and doesn't get any data back.  Perhaps the commands should
> have a timeout thingie (which would not be enabled by default), and
> if a command times out, Gnus should just hang up and reconnect.

this would be okay, but to be reliable the timeout would have to be on
the order of several minutes (since getting a response to a POST
command can take minutes).

what I'd like instead is an easy way of doing a manual reconnect,
since I know when I need to.
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