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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: TCP/IP 3.1 hangs on rsh
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Date: 11 Aug 88 23:03:07 GMT
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> From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
> 
> If you ping an
> Apollo the first attempt will usually fail, but after that ping seems
> to work.  

I've noticed that here as well.  It doesn't happen every time, and seems
more likely on the older nodes (DN320, DN550), so I attribute it to
timing out before the appropriate part of the TCP server can be swapped
in to answer.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis