Progress in 0.5.0 Beta
We finally managed to find out why some people complain about intermittent and sometimes frequent timeouts on their server connections.
It turns out that on some systems for some Usenet providers, DNS resolving takes very long.
On Linux systems it seems worse than on Windows.
It’s probably a combination of the OS and the network library we use.
The download section is designed under the assumption that DNS resolving takes a few seconds. If it starts taking between 10 and 30 seconds, already established connections will time out.
This is especially true for unresolvable addresses (like those of free IPV6 servers that are often off-line).
Anyway, discovery is 50% of the solution. It will take a few days to work out (and test) a proper work-around for this. As soon as it’s ready there will be a new Beta.
After this is solved we’re very close to a final release of 0.5.0.
