Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.13.3.92 download connections

[Duncan]

On Sun 09 Feb 2003 17:14, Kevin posted as excerpted below:
> Is the referenced version using the new 'multiple connections for one
> binary' code?
>
> Reason I ask is I'm getting one binary at a time, and if I look in the log
> viewer it tries to download a second or third, but I get my news server
> message about "..only 3 connections per host allowed..".

Yes.  It is using all four connections here, on a single task, anyway.

Apologies if the following is going over stuff you checked already, and seems 
a bit simplistic, but it never hurts to be sure..

Your error is only three connections per server allowed... you don't have PAN 
configured for four connections per server, do you?  That'd get you the error 
in the log.  (That setting is under Tools/NewsServers menu, whichever server 
on the resulting dialog.)

Another possibility is that you have two servers in PAN, both set up to use 
the same real server.  I do this for group categorizing purposes, and 
occasionally forget I have connections on the same real server going already.

Finally, a connection may occasionally die, without properly being terminated.  
This is especially likely on a bad or noisy analog connection (like dialup), 
but may happen due to other factors as well.  When this happens, the server 
doesn't realize that connection is dead until its timeout expires.  During 
the period until timeout of the dead connection, you won't be able to make 
another one to fill that hole, so you will effectively be limited to two 
connections (or one, if two are dead but not timed out, etc).

-- 
Duncan
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