Re: CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start

[Francis Litterio]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Francis Litterio wrote:
>> Is this issue likely to bite other people?  Can we assume that the
>> Windows host has RPC access to its domain controllers and/or LDAP
>> servers?

> In the case of laptops, you can't assume the domain controller will always be
> there, but perhaps the failure happens more quickly in that case (in the
> firewall case, the system may have enough connectivity to the domain 
> controller
> to not give up so easily).

I should have added that my firewall silently drops blocked packets,
without sending an ICMP Destination Unreachable or TCP RST to the
source.  I think that's why I had a ~60 second pause with my network
cable plugged in but no pause at all with the cable disconnected.
--
Fran