Timeout when connecting to sybase DBS

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    Gil> Are you saying, that when you trying to connect to a sybase DBS
    Gil> server and the DBS or the server is down, you get an error after a
    Gil> few seconds and not after a few minutes?

Yes, though thankfully our server tends to almost always be up.

    Gil> Which python version are you using?

We're still running 2.4.5 at work and have a slightly hacked very old
version of the python-sybase package (0.36).

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