From: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: <landley@webofficenow.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hour long timeout to ssh/telnet/ftp to down host?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:40:17 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106131138390.22415-100000@Expansa.sns.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B26CD5B.47002360@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> > I have scripts that ssh into large numbers of boxes, which are sometimes
> > down. The timeout for figuring out the box is down is over an hour. This is
> > just insane.
> >
> > Telnet and ftp behave similarly, or at least tthey lasted the 5 minutes I was
> > willing to wait, anyway. Basically anything that calls connect(). If the
> > box doesn't respond in 15 seconds, I want to give up.
> >
> > Is this a problem with the kernel or with glibc? If it's the kernel, I'd
> > expect a /proc entry where I can set this, but I can't seem to find one. Is
> > there one? What would be involved in writing one?
> >
>
> You can tune things by setting the tcp-timeout probably..I don't
> know exactly where to set this..
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout
default is 60.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-12 21:02 Hour long timeout to ssh/telnet/ftp to down host? Rob Landley
2001-06-13 2:18 ` Ben Greear
2001-06-12 21:47 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-13 9:40 ` Luigi Genoni [this message]
2001-06-13 10:07 ` Rob Landley
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