[Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server

[SciFi]

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:41 +0000, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> 
> One of the servers that I get articles from is "dead", (hopefully only
> temporarily).  As a result, pan "hangs" for quite some time when I exit
> pan, waiting for the network connection to fail.  Is there a way to tell
> pan to "not bother" to try and connect to this server, without deleting
> the server from the list of servers?
> 
> Pan 0.132 "waxed in black" on Fedora 9
> 
> Thanks!
> Bruce

I believe if you dial–down the “Connection Limit” to 0 (Zero),
that server will not be used at all ‘period’.  ;)

Also there are probably sysctl settings that can shorten the
time-outs for initiating connections, but those would be
system–wide settings of course.