On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:45:51PM +0100, Yaroslav Popovitch wrote:
> Hello!
> My web server is switched off.
> I use curl to request some html page on SuSe 9.3 (ia32) and MacOS X
> 10.4.6 (ppc).
> I am getting errors messages which come with different time intervals.

It probably has to do with your network topology. A host on the same
Ethernet subnet will have a very short timeout on ARP requests, so it won't
take long for it to know that a host is not there. A host on the other side
of a router will wait much longer before giving up, because it has no way of
knowing what the latency of the link is on the other side of the router.
Or, the two machine could simply have different default kernel-level timeouts
(see sysctl(8)).

>>> Dan

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