Re: Database connection/Query behavior over the WAN.

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:30:01 -0400, "Art S. Kagel" > <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: > > > For queries to existing connections > >to an engine that has gone down there is nothing you can do except to > >set your own alarm code, close the connection and try to reconnect. > >These hangs will eventually time out but that takes too long for most > >applications. > > I seem to remeber some new "keep alive" option you could set in the > sqlhosts file that would regularly check if the server in the other > end is up and presumably fail the query if that was not the case. May > be it was only talked about and not implemented yet? You have a point Nils. This is just the situation that the new options were designed to improve. (One day I'll actually get my servers upgraded beyond 7.21 and be able to use this stuff.) Art S. Kagel