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From: gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why do sites timeout always
Keywords: timeout
Message-ID: <1506@proa.SV.DG.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 90 07:13:52 GMT
References: <142744@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@proa.SV.DG.COM ()
Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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 In article <142744@felix.UUCP> art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) writes:
 >I've watched some connections with -x9 and find that after the R
 >command is sent the remote site fails for some reason and the
 >local machine times out.  This happens so many times I would like to
 >get some opinions as to why this is happening.  The two sites I have
 >seen this occur repeatedly is avatar and osu-cis.  Any insight would
 >be helpful.
>(714)966-3618

This must be a feature of the 714 area code (??).  dgcad can call all around
408 but whenever it tries to connect to spsd (our sister site down south - in
714) we get this R timeout business (running Telebits or vanilla 1200 bpi).
spsd can call dgcad, seemingly, without problem.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
The impossible we understand right away - the obvious takes a little longer.