On 07/08/2018 02:59 AM, John Roman wrote: > Greetings, > I wish to discuss a formal change of the default retry for wget from 20 > to something more pragmatic such as two or three. > > While I believe 20 retries may have been the correct default many years > ago, it seems overkill for the modern "cloud based" internet, where most > sites are > backed by one or more load balancers. Geolocateable A records further > reduce the necessity for retries by providing a second or third option > for browsers to try. To a lesser extent, GTM and GSLB technologies > (however maligned they may be) are sufficient as well to > properly handle failures for significant amounts of traffic. BGP > network technology for large hosting providers has also further reduced > the need to perform several retries to a site. Finally, for better or > worse, environments such as Kubernetes and other container orchestration > tools seem to afford sites an unlimited uptime should the marketing be > trusted.
Solution: Just add 'tries = 3' to /etc/wgetrc or to ~/.wgetrc and never care for it again. But I wonder myself a bit about your request... if 3 tries would always be enough to catch a file safely, then it doesn't matter if tries is set to 20, 20.000 or even unlimited. Is there something you might have forgotten to write !? Regards, Tim
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