in reply to Re^4: host does not respond; sometimes
in thread host does not respond; sometimes

i do not have ANY clue what that piece of code may have changed so that it's working now and did not earlier. maybe one of you can explain?
Unless the log reveals, no. Maybe you didn't upload in ascii mode and that somehow executed sleep 9999? Maybe your database server went berserk? Impossible to tell.

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