From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14855 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2011 15:27:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 14844 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Feb 2011 15:27:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_BZ,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:27:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.11] (cpe-67-249-196-94.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.196.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p1LFQw0B007850 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:26:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D62843F.2000205@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:27:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spurious "Connection reset by peer" problems anybody? References: <20110221104352.GA17868@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D626D65.3060408@cornell.edu> <20110221140140.GD17868@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110221142606.GE17868@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D627C96.8000807@cornell.edu> <20110221150636.GF17868@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110221150636.GF17868@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00467.txt.bz2 On 2/21/2011 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 21 09:54, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 2/21/2011 9:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Feb 21 15:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> I spoke too soon. [...] >>> >>> Er... btw., is the situation something which is local to your >>> environment or is it something which can be easily reproduced? >> >> The short answer is that it wouldn't be easy. Here are the details: >> >> I keep a local mirror of the emacs bzr repository. I connect to the >> repository via bzr+ssh. Every few days I refresh my mirror with >> 'bzr up'. When I do this from work, where I have a fast ethernet >> connection, there's no problem. When I do it from home, where I >> connect to the internet via a wireless router, it often fails with >> the "Software caused connection abort" message. I keep retrying and >> eventually it works. Sometimes it takes 10 tries, other times it >> works on the first try. >> >> I've had similar problems in the past when using rsync to maintain a >> local mirror of the texlive repository. In that case I think the >> error message was always "Connection reset by peer". Once again, >> the problem only occurred when working from home. >> >> I've always assumed that there was some issue with my home network >> setup or my ISP, but I had no idea how to track it down. It never >> occurred to me that it could be a Cygwin/Windows problem. > > The problem is that this is not necessarily a Cygwin/Windows problem. > It's just possible that Windows plays a role here. > > As far as this problem goes, it would only occur at the end of a > connection, when close() is called on the socket on the Windows side. > The error message would occur on the peer side, independent of the OS > it's running on. If the connection just breaks at some arbitary point, > it's almost surely not the problem I'm talking about. In my case the connection does break at some point in the middle, not at the end, so it sounds like I have a different problem. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple