Re: [leafnode-list] (i) Connection timeout (ii) Can't access new or old groups

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 05:40:00PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> The connection between tin and leafnode has started timing out if I don't
> access leafnode within 5 (??) minutes, and this is getting irritating. Is
> this timeout being done at the leafnode end? If so, can I configure
> leafnode _not_ to timeout?

There's a non-configurable 15 minute timeout in the server.  This is a
very standard thing for a server to do - it shouldn't cause any problems
for reasonable clients.

> I tried searching for this problem in the mailing-list archive, but found
> nothing. Could somebody please tell me how to fix this (or point me to
> the right place in the archive :-).

ISTR there being problems with some versions of tin, but don't quite me
on that and I don't recall which versions.

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