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I think you're actually seeing two problems: 
	1) linux has a much higher connection timeout than BSD
traditionally had. This is legitimate, but...
	2) emacs doesn't get interrupted by ^g when waiting for a
network connection. (This also backs up other subprocesses, which can
be rather annoying...)

If problem 2 gets fixed (19.29 was still broken at least) then you can
just ^g when it takes to long for you comfort.