Re: Cannot open server errors

[robert@elastica.com]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> 
> Klaus Schniedergers <eedksc@eed.ericsson.se> writes:
> 
> > I'm having the same problem. Gnus tells me after ~5 seconds that there
> > is a connection error, but it usually takes ~15 seconds or more
> > connecting to my slow server via telnet. Other (non-Emacs) newsreaders
> > wait long enough.
> 
> Try evaling this form:
> 
>   (open-network-stream "nntpd" (current-buffer) "SERVER-NAME" "nntp")

You mean literally?

If so, it took about twenty seconds to say UNKNOWN HOST.

In my case along this appears to be apparent when I'm running my news scanner
and it's taking all the bandwidth. Still you'd expect a connnect to be able
to get in though right?

The newsscanner is doing a get large xover request usually.

> 
> What happens?
> 
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>      would have to wait until some other time."
> 
> 

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