Re: Fallback Host

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Philip Hazel wrote:

ph10 >I have just run tests on this Solaris 2.5 system. Sending a message to a
ph10 >host that gave an immediate "connection refused" caused an immediate
ph10 >attempt to connect to the fallback host, as intended. Could the problem
ph10 >you saw be another Linux-ism? Any Linux experts like to comment?

I ran this with debug. It turns out that the unit had two IP numbers and
there was no CONNECTION REFUSED for the second IP address. Instead the
connect() call timed out after 15 minutes. Is there any way to tell
connect to just wait a shorter period?

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