Cannot open server errors

[<robert@elastica.com>]

Hi, I'm a little confused by my connect problems with my news server.

Basically, for some reason it gives up after about 10 seconds. 

I don't quite understand why it does this because my /dev/tcp is set
to the default 5 minutes or at least something higher than the 10
seconds it takes for gnus to quit trying. This has probbaly very
little to do with GNUS but I figure the tcp stuff in Emacs should be
using the default rather than this very short timeout I'm noticing.

NOTE: My server doesn't help much either. I mean it usually takes a
few nntpsend's before it will send the stuff out.

It as if my Solaris installation has a hell of a time opening two
connections to the same host/port combination. I'm running so
unlimited server 2.5 so that shouldn't be a problem.

Here's some timings whilst slurp is running bringing in news.

robert:/export/home/robert>./news.pl                                      15:29
Connect took  8 secs ( 0.01 usr  0.01 sys =  0.02 cpu) seconds
Connect took  6 secs ( 0.01 usr  0.00 sys =  0.01 cpu) seconds
Connect took  9 secs ( 0.01 usr  0.00 sys =  0.01 cpu) seconds
Connect took  7 secs ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys =  0.00 cpu) seconds
^C

#! /usr/local/bin/perl5.002 -w

use strict;
use News::NNTPClient;
use FileHandle;
use Benchmark;

my ($try, $news, $t0, $t1, $dt) = ();

for (1..10)
{
	$t0 = new Benchmark;
	$news = new News::NNTPClient("news") || 
		STDERR->print("Couldn't connect to news");
	$t1 = new Benchmark;
	$dt = timediff($t1, $t0);
	STDOUT->printf("Connect took %s seconds\n",timestr($dt));
	$news->quit();
}