[236] in SIPB bug reports
webster bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 4 11:44:25 1988
From: jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 11:42:26 EST
To: nlgilman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <nlgilman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Wed, 2 Nov 88 11:10:39 EST <8811021610.AA28185@OLIVER.MIT.EDU>
Webster and xwebster have been modified in the following ways:
1) Timeout time for each RPC packet has been changed to 15 seconds.
2) Each RPC call attempts three times before giving up. This makes
for a total of 45 seconds wait if the server is "listening in" but
not responding (if the server isn't running the RPC call will fail
immediately). It also provides for the fact that packets *do* get
lost when using RPC.
3) The error message when the RPC call does not work now reads
something to the effect of "The webster server appears to be
broken. Please try again, and if it doesn't work, send mail to
bug-sipb to let the SIPB know."
Thanks to Mark for the suggestions which led to these fixes.
jik
