[drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b1

[Nate Duehr]

Maybe an on/off switch in the GUI if you know your ip connectivity  
comes and goes? (laptop)

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Nate Duehr
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On Oct 28, 2008, at 14:38, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:

>> Last weekend we held a D-rats training session for our RACES group.
>> I encountered and interesting problem while trying to send an email
>> via another station.  The other station didn't have a working
>> internet connection.  I wanted to see what would happen if I sent the
>> other station an email destined for a hotmail account on the
>> internet.  The other station completely locked up and we had to kill
>> the D-rats task via Task Manager to free things up.
>
> Okay, if there is really no network connection, it should time out
> immediately.  This is really the operating system's job, so maybe
> Windows isn't doing the Right Thing (tm) here.  In Linux, if there  
> is no
> connection, it just immediately fails like you would expect.
>
> I don't control the timeout on a socket, so that's not really an  
> option.
>  What I can do is make it a thread so that it completes in the
> background instead of the GUI update thread.
>
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