suggestion: gnus-reconnect

suggestion: gnus-reconnect

[Mark Denovich]

I am connected through a dynamic PPP link...  So whenever the link
goes down I have to kill gnus and then restart it when the link comes
back up since it tries to access the nntp server using my old IP
address.

I'd like a command to have it open a new connection to the server and
throw away the old one.

Can someone do this?

Is there a better way?

	--Mark

Re: suggestion: gnus-reconnect

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Denovich <madst38@pitt.edu> writes:

> I am connected through a dynamic PPP link...  So whenever the link
> goes down I have to kill gnus and then restart it when the link comes
> back up since it tries to access the nntp server using my old IP
> address.
> 
> I'd like a command to have it open a new connection to the server and
> throw away the old one.

I think Gnus should be able to reconnect to the server automatically.
In fact, I thought it did that.  :-)  

nntp.el just uses `open-network-stream' to connect to the server.
There is no parameter to that function to specify what the address of
the host machine is -- so what happens?  Does it try to connect and
then hangs forever?  I have no experience with dynamic ppp
connections... 

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