On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote:

> I telnetted to the server, and ran a ping on the gateway while I wrote
> the last e-mail. When I came back to the telnet screen, 129 packets had
> gone out and 0 had come back (100% packet loss). So I tried again for 2
> seconds and it still didn't come back. Then I tried once more and it
> connected and began pinging successfully (average time was 35
> milliseconds) until I finally hit Ctrl+C to break out of the ping.
>
> So now we've establish that sometimes it just doesn't connect and
> sometimes it does - seemingly random success and failure rates. All other
> sites can be pinged perfectly.

This indicates serious problems with the machine and/or your network, and
then of course curl's transfers will also get confused and suffer.

I can't see what curl could possibly do to correct that?

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