From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5189 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp. Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:02:07 +0100 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Sender: pp@ojnk.bahnhof.se Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145829 32093 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA12923 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:34:47 -0800 Original-Received: from ojnk.bahnhof.se (ojnk.bahnhof.se [193.44.91.7]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:59:09 +0100 Original-Received: (from pp@localhost) by ojnk.bahnhof.se (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA00988; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:02:07 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5189 My usual newsserver at news.solace.mh.se is currently down due to some new installations and reworking of everything, thus I noticed something which annoys me quite a lot. It takes Gnus minutes to realize that the newsserver is down. Wouldn't it be a good idea to `ping' the machine before trying to connect to the nntp port on it? `ffap.el' does this when you try to access ftp servers so I bet it would be easy to implement in Gnus too. I find it to be a bit annoying to wait for 4-5 minutes to get Gnus to realize that the server isn't responding when a `ping' takes much less time. However, I don't want the time limit on the connect to be lessend, on occasions it takes 3-4 minutes for my Gnus to connect to news.solace.mh.se when it IS working. -- anum meum aperies, asperge me spermate tuo et inquinabor url; http://pfawww.pp.se/~pp/ email; phone#'s; work/home/fax: +46 (0)18 100899/247473/103737