Re: {bb} problem monitoring kpop after upgrade

[Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Tracy J. Di Marco White wrote:
> Today I finally upgraded from bb-1.09b to bb-1.2b, made the few local
> changes necessary to monitor kpop (port 1109), now it doesn't work.
> I'm not sure what I missed, kpop is in my /etc/services file, and I've
> updated bb-network.sh.  Testing with bbnet shows:
>   # /local2/bb-1.2b/bin/bbnet mailhub:1109
>   bbnet: TIMEOUT mailhub PORT 1109...
> but with the older version:
>   # /local2/bb-1.09b/bin/bbnet mailhub:1109
>   # echo $status
>   0
Between 1.09b and 1.2b the timeout handling for bbnet was changed from a
single 30 seconds timeout to three tries of 3, 5 and 12 seconds
respectively.

This means that if the service takes from 12 to 30 seconds before
answering, then it would work with the old version, but won't with the
new.

Not knowing kpop, I can't tell exactly why the delay is so long, but for
other services it's often a failing reverse dns lookup or a failing
auth/ident request, either of which might take a timeout before the
service responds.

> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Tracy J. Di Marco White
> Project Vincent Systems Manager
> gendalia@iastate.edu
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