[ATrpms-users] atrpms.net blocking?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 04:20:05PM +0200, ds3 at destruction.dystopic.org wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > There is a setting in yum called keepalive which is supposed to reuse
> > the same connection for all downloads, e.g. only one connection to
> > dl.atrpms.net. Do you have this turned off by any chance? It defaults
> > to being turned on.
> 
> Heh, checked it out, and it is on by default. More looking around and it 
> turned out my test was flawed; apparently, the default httpd.conf for 
> some unfathomable reason had KeepAlive Off, something that hadnt crossed 
> my mind as a possibility (especially since I'd checked it so it wasnt 
> downgrading urlgrabber or had a very low keepalive timeout or 
> anything...). Once keepalive was on on the webserver, yum keeps the 
> connection up, just like it should.
> 
> Oh, well, back to square one, got blocked a lot while I was using 
> dl.atrpms.net, and no idea why :).

I just say: Ouch

# grep ^KeepAlive /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf
KeepAlive Off
KeepAliveTimeout 15

So the fault was on the server ...

My bad, I didn't check the settings and FC4 had this by default off.
I just turned it on, let's see.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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