[Mrs. Brisby <mrs.brisby@ni...>]

If it really is blocking in connect() (around line 155 in tcp.c/CVS),
then you can do either:
	1. put an alarm(N); right above that line, where N is the number of
seconds you want to wait.
	2. lower the TCP connection timeout limit on your operating system


However, the magic words you are using are "connect to an ip" -- I think
your resolver library doesn't translate gethostbyname()'s for IP
addresses, but instead actually asks the DNS cache for it, _AND_ you're
not using a DNS cache that performs that translation (like djbdns does)

RDESKTOP-DEVEL:

Your tcp_connect routine is not friendly to systems with a broken
resolver library (sadly, most aren't).

I've taken the liberty of rewriting those functions. Since I am lazy,
I've just coded them in a separate file. Please see attached code
fragment, integrate into tcp.c (fairly easily) and apply to CVS.




On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 04:50, Justin Fretwell wrote:
> I need to reduce the timeout when someone tries to connect to an ip with no 
> terminal services running.  how might i do this?