From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-04-05T03:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13495] Re: avoiding network timeout

Arno Erpenbeck <aerpenbe@uos.de> writes:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> maybe somebody can help me with this one: I wrote a prog which fetches
> pages from the web with multiple threads. However, the URLs given
> sometimes cause a network timeout:
> 
> #<Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Die Wartezeit f=FCr die Verbindung ist abgelaufen - "co=
> nnect(2)">
> (German for: connection timeout)
> 
> But this error only appears after a long pause, where all other threads
> are blocked as well.

Is this possibly happening because of a DNS timeout?