#24 timeout with nntpcache

[Anonymous]

My news server recently switched to using nntpcache
for serving some of its groups. While downloading the
headers (and when I get to it, also the bodies) from
nntpcache-3.0.1, after a short time the download stops
and then (after a while) the following error is displayed:

prot_nntp.cc:766:caught exception
sockpool.cc:59:TransportExError: nntp_getline:
sockstuff.cc:344: sock_read timeout reached (180s)
will try <server> again
nntp_group: trying again. 1

With other (binary) newsreaders, this problem does not
seem to occur.

I could reproduce this error by installing a local
nntpcache (but then again, this local nntpcache uses
the mentioned newsserver, so I cannot be sure at all)

I tried both nget-0.24 and nget-0.26.

PS: I really like nget! (And I miss it a lot now...)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Set a higher value for timeout in .ngetrc. See man nget.

[Matthew Mueller]

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Hm. That is pretty odd. Does lowering maxstreaming (or
setting to 0) help?

I can't really think of much else. Well, you could also try
commenting out the HAVE_SELECT line in sockstuff.cc, which
will completely disable the timeout mechanism.