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Message-ID: <1991Mar27.174714.9902@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 27 Mar 91 07:47:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1991Mar27.174714.9902
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
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I have aproblem with MacTCP/NCSA Telnet combination which we have been 
unable to figure out (neither can NCSA help). I can  connect to plenty
of machines within Aust. but none overseas (i.e. US) The problem seems to be
with the response time. Machines overseas typically take about 6-10 secs
to respond by which time MACtcp has timed out (we checked this by pinging
sites from the campus mainframe). In the CONFIG.TEL file the comments
indicate that the timeout parameter is ignored for the MacTCP version of
NCSA Telnet and that does seem to be the case. SO ... does MacTCP have the
timeout period hard coded into it ... and if so were Apple stupid enough
to set it at 5 secs?

Dr Garry Willgoose
Dept of Civil Eng.
University of Newcastle
AUSTRALIA