On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:33:11 PST Janos A Csirik ([EMAIL PROTECTED] du) wrote: [snip] > I have been using dctrl to look at timeouts and noticed that although my > general tcp timeout is set to 10 minutes, fetchmail generates tcp > packets that start as though they'd keep the link up for 10 minutes, but > after about 1 second it changes to keeping the link up for only 5 > seconds. If the host that fetchmail is trying to connect is not in my > /etc/hosts, then everything still works since the host query udp packets > have 30 second timeouts. (My modem takes about 20 seconds to connect.) [snip] > I included a copy of my /etc/diald/standard.filters in case it's > relevant.
> keepup tcp 5 !tcp.live This line says that when a tcp connection is closed, this connection will only hold the link up for 5 secs. That's probably this one you want to change: when the pop3 tcp connection is closed, the link has 5 secs to live unless you have other connections around. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
