[198] in Zephyr_Bugs
Zephyr hostmanager timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue Dec 18 14:00:03 1990
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-zephyr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 90 13:59:44 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
The recent change to increase HM_TIMEOUT to 30 seconds is the wrong fix to
the problem. The reported problems were with znol; the error which was
being returned was "ETIMEDOUT". This is NOT a hostmanager communication
error, it is a server timeout. The code uses the hostmanager timeout for
server communcations, but the code is broken. The function ZNewLocateUser
should be changed to use a different timeout and the hostmanager timeout
reset to 5 or 10 seconds as it was in early testing. Only if the error
"Hostmanager not responding" is seen should the zephyr hostmanager timeout
be increased.
