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* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:37:35 -0500)
> > * Andrew Schulman (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:12:54 -0500)
> > > > > lftp ftp.microsoft.com
> > > > lftp: host name resolve timeout
> > > 
> > > I'm not able to reproduce this problem:
> > 
> > I figured it out myself: it's the "dns:fatal-timeout 0" setting in my 
> > .lftprc. The funny thing is that "0" is the default and actually means 
> > "no timeout"
> > 
> > man lftp
> > "dns:fatal-timeout (seconds)
> > limit the time for DNS queries. If DNS server is unavailable too long, 
> > lftp will fail to resolve  a  given  host  name. 0  means               
> > unlimited, the default."
> > 
> > It's a classical bug, my Linux lftp 3.5.7 shows the same behaviour.
> 
> OK, I'm glad you found it.  A few comments:
> 
> (1) The man page for version 3.5.9 says something different from what you
> show above:
> 
> dns:fatal-timeout (time interval)
>        limit the time for DNS queries. If DNS server is unavailable too
>        long,  lftp  will  fail  to  resolve  a  given host name. Set to
>        `never' to disable.

The man page from the cygwin binary is still 3.5.5 but it says the same.
 
> So setting it to 0 should probably be expected to be fatal.  Maybe this is
> what changed in version 3.4.4, that caused your setup to stop working with
> Cygwin then.
> 
> On my host without setting dns:fatal-timeout, its value is 7d.
> 
> (2) lftp is fairly complex and I'm still learning it.  For future bug
> reports I'll ask users to attach their .lftprc files and look first in the
> settings, of which there are about 200.

Probably asking to start lftp with the .lftrc would even be wiser...

Thorsten


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