Re: No countdown today

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:19 AM

> James <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> It seems that there is some intermittent issue at Savannah.gnu.org
>> that is stopping me from pulling or fetching (I am getting either
>> 'SSH-message' errors or 'fatal read' errors.
>>
> I got it mostly under control by reducing my MTU to 1400 from its
> default of 1500 on my wireless interface.  It would appear that
> something was not dealing gracefully with packet fragmentation and/or
> size.  While I consider it most likely to have been a problem at my end,
> it is at least conceivable that it might be a problem with the FSF's
> network connections.  Though I think that Savannah is on quite a
> different net than most of the gnu.org stuff, so that's a bit unlikely.
> 
> At any rate, just wanted to throw this out for people who might want to
> try whether fiddling with the MTU might make any difference with their
> setup.

I had a similar problem 6 years ago which was resolved by
changing the MTU value.  The details are recorded here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-02/msg00400.html

Just in case these problems are something similar ...

Trevor