Re: Gnus gets stuck when network changes

[William Xu]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Can Emacs open a network connection outside Gnus?
>
> For example try (url-insert-file-contents "http://google.com";) in a
> temporary buffer.  That won't use any Gnus facilities.

Since emacs gets stuck at this point, I'm unable to do this test during
that time.  For after that stuck, I'll explain below.  

> Then try the same for your own mail server, if there's a web server
> running on or near it.  If you can't get through, try command-line
> telnet to port N (where N is your IMAP, POP, whatever port) and ping.
> If those don't work either, the problem is outside of Emacs.

After the stuck period, I checked Gnus group buffer, finding it failed
to connect to some newsgroup servers, for example, Gnus "Cannot open
server" for the following: 

,----
| zen:~$ telnet aioe.cjb.net 119
| Trying 194.177.96.26...
| Connected to aioe.cjb.net.
| Escape character is '^]'.
| 500 Too long connection
| 
| Connection closed by foreign host.
`----

Besides that, the gmane newsgroup server is still connected.  

I don't understand why that long stuck period, what kind of TIMEOUT is
that...  

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William

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