Re: "connection timed out" problem

Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in news:499vkdFnm76uU1
@news.dfncis.de:

> Skywise wrote:
>
>> TcpMaxDataRetransmissions is missing
>
> default is 5, my recommendation is 3, but only set to 0 could cause
> serious problems

I'm at 2 right now and it's helped. I'll try 3 at my next reboot.

Actually, today, I have had NO problems at all. I wonder if this
one setting was the cause of all my problems.

BTW, is there a way to read the registry from another install?
That is, I have as a secondary drive a working W2k install from
my older machine that died. I'd be curious to see what it's
setting for this value was.

>>> - does netstat or TcpView omit something about how long Windows is
>>> waiting for the DNS reply?
>>
>> I've just downloaded TCPView....what exactly should I be looking
>> for?
>
> System:0 (TIME_WAIT)
> svchost:some high port (dnscache service going nuts?)
> anything:domain (some other app stealing your DNS replies)

TIME_WAIT only appears briefly when I'm actually doing stuff.

There's only one svchost listed, and it's listening to my own
machine.

> BTW, what about stopping the DnsCache service? In contrast to the
> description, DNS resolving works without it.

I'll try this on a future reboot as well.

I only try one thing at a time to keep from confounding myself.

Brian

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