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On Thursday 28 February 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: |
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> Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing? |
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> With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes |
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> unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to |
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> Point B then that terminal window will hang till point B is reachable. |
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Ha! I was blaming MSWindows for causing the PC to hang whenever I was trying |
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to connect to the office file server (through a VPN session). My reasoning |
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went that I shouldn't lose the whole machine for 10 minutes, while waiting |
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for an error that it couldn't authenticate me on the domain controller. I |
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blamed the OS for being stupid of course (not withstanding the outsourced |
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tech support who can't fix it). In the sense that neither Linux, nor Gentoo |
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constitutes a stupid OS, I think this is a bug. Fine for the |
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application/terminal to crash, but not the whole machine. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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