Re: [NF] Network Request timed out

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 2 May 2018, at 7:07 PM, Frank Cazabon wrote: > I am having some problems when running code that synchronises data > between 2 SQL Servers using SM Sync Framework. This code runs fine at > about 50 other sites. > > I am getting time out errors reported: > > TCP Provider, error: 0 - The semaphore timeout period has expired > > Google has suggested this site > https://sqlserverscribbles.com/2013/02/15/tcp-provider-the-semaphore-timeout... > as possible solutions but I wanted to make sure there is actually a > problem before I try to fix it as I am not a network guy. My client > doesn't have anyone who manages their network for them either. > > I found a suggestion to run this command: > > ping -t hostname > out.txt > > so I did that  and left it running for about 4 and a half hours. In that > period I got 38 Request timed out messages (out of 18,685 total > messages, so 18,643 were successful, the majority in 3 or 4 ms but > pretty regularly going up to 22 or 23ms). > > Is this normal, or do you think they have a problem? > > -- > > Frank. > > Frank Cazabon > > [excessive quoting removed by server]