Subject: Why does my networking hang?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/1997 19:55:40
I seem to have a problem connecting to netbsd.org to update my sources.
Both sup and ftp from my system to there end up timing out or worse.

Examples:

<5 wormey /usr/suplog># sup -sv | tee sup21.log
SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for system software at Nov 14 19:37:16
SUP Upgrade of current-allsrc at Fri Nov 14 19:37:17 1997
SUP Fileserver 8.13 (4.3 BSD) 12204 on netbsd.warped.com at 19:37:17
SUP Requesting changes since Nov  9 05:17:14 1997
SUP: Read error on network: Connection reset by peer
SUP: Network write timed out
SUP: Error reading file list from file server
SUP: Upgrade of current-allsrc aborted at Nov 14 19:46:00 1997
SUP: Network write timed out
SUP: Aborted
SUP Upgrade of current-security at Fri Nov 14 19:46:02 1997
^C
<6 wormey /usr/suplog># ftp ftp.netbsd.org
Connected to netbsd.warped.com.
220-   Welcome to FTP.WARPED.COM                              ,        ,
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
ftp>

It worked OK last Sunday (11/9), but didn't yesterday.  I can ftp to other
systems (ftp.macbsd.com, for one) and telnet to macbsd.com and eskimo.com
works just fine.  I ended up yesterday ftp'ing the tarballs to macbsd.com
and from there to my machine.  I've done a build from those tarballs and
the problem still exists.

Am I the only one suffering these problems?  Is there anything I can
do to alleviate them?

~Steve

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