[446] in SIPB bug reports
webster problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 30 07:32:04 1989
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 06:33:54 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
You both sent mail to bug-sipb about problems with the webster server.
In both cases, the reason you got, "The webster server appears to be
broken," is because you asked the server to do a query that takes
longer than the 15-second RPC timeout to execute.
The 15 second timeout is a compromise between a timeout that is long
enough for all long queries to execute and a timeout that is short
enough so that if the first RPC packet gets lost, the next one will
get sent in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm considering upping the timeout a few seconds, and/or switching
back from RPC to tcp sockets.
Thanks for reporting the problem; however, you might see it happen
again before I have a chance to do something about it :-)
jik
