[Xastir] Xastir forgetting DNS???

[Andrew Rich]

Caused by connection refused


>From: Tom Robson <ve7did at dccnet.com>
>Reply-To: ve7did at dccnet.com
>To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>,Wes Johnston <wes at johnston.net>
>CC: xastir at xastir.org
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir forgetting DNS???
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:32:19 -0700
>
>Have similar disconnections once in a while so I talked to the fellow from
>aprswest and he mentioned it was probably the local connection to the users
>which was being dropped. (which was the situation in my case).  As I 
>remember
>he said something to the effect that the server tries for about 20 seconds 
>to
>maintain connection and if it disappears then the client has to try and
>connect again.  Xastir must do this as the connection is reestablished.
>
>...73 Tom
>
>
>On October 21, 2003 08:27 pm, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Wes Johnston wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if
> > > xastir fails to re-lookup the address after the DNS entry expires?
> >
> > Nope.  It looks up the DNS entry once, then has an IP address.  It
> > makes a socket connection to that IP address and socket, and then if
> > the network stays up, so does the socket.
> >
> > It's possible that the other end is dropping you, and Xastir has to
> > figure that out, disconnect, and reconnect, which takes a bit of
> > time.
> >
> > Try doing "netstat -tcp" in an Xterm window on the RedHat box and see
> > what the TCP sockets think they're doing when you have that problem.
> >
> > Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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