From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: Mail-Server for agate and tsx-11? Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 06:57:12 GMT
In article <1993Mar1.051838.2144@uws.EDU.AU> jbenger@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Jonathan Benger) writes:
>and does anyone know what's wrong withe the mailserver at sunsite? I only
>used it once or twice and since then it's been offline.
Yes, I know what's wrong. I noticed that you had been using it. I don't like
the name jbenger so I disabled it to keep it away from you. ;)
Seriously, I'm sorry its still down. I was going to fix it Friday but was
Commanded to write something Immediately Useful. So there we are.
But I did have time to sit down with the Perl debugger and find out what
the problem is, even though I haven't fixed it.
In case anybody cares, the problem is caused by the usual FTPD time out when
someone requests big files (1 meg+). it causes one of the ftp functions
to fail where there is no handling for a failure and then the server goes
into an infinite loop of resending the first n files. <sigh>
hopefully I'll fix it tomorrow. ;)
jem.