limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (05/28/90)
DNet suddenly stops accepting connections. Here's the story:
I have been using DNet to talk to a Sun-3 and a DEC Station 3100
for a year or two and all of a sudden I have a new problem.
First, the vital statistics:
Amiga 2000 1.2 Kick, 1.3 WorkBench, Arp 1.3
(1meg chip, 1meg fast, GVP + 140meg HD)
Sun 3 running 4.0.3c
I use tcsh (csh plus command completion)
Terminal server: an 8-bit connection.
DNet (latest version, upgraded a while ago with no problems)
I am using DNet to send many, many small files. The script that
runs on the Amiga is basically a series of "getfile"'s that I
execute once the link is established. That is, rather than using
wildcards or getting entire directories, this script is gets each
file one at a time. It looks a little like this:
getfiles -dUUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/tech -c /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/tech/11967
getfiles -dUUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/tech -c /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/tech/11968
getfiles -dUUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga -c /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/40743
getfiles -dUUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/hardware -c /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/1942
....
(It's computer-generated... no, I don't type it all myself!)
The problem:
I can run this script and it executes the first 100 or so lines
(about an hours worth) and then it aborts saying "unable to
connect". If I run "loadav" it tells me the same.
I can "quitdnet" and then restart it and I get the same problem.
If I "quitdnet", click on the close-box, then re-run Dnet (luckily my
modem never hangs up) then the problem goes away... for another
hour or so.
Does anyone else have such problems? Are there any patches for
DNet that I don't know about?
Could someone forward this to Matt for me? I don't know his
new address.
Thanks,
-Tom
--
tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli
tlimonce@drew.uucp +1 201 408 5389
tlimonce@drew.Bitnet
limonce@pilot.njin.net