*** Shawn K. Quinn [2019-12-22 14:17]:
>And now connections fail 10 seconds in every time:

I made 5.3.1 release where I have found that piped connection did not
process deadlines correctly (addresses like "|ssh ..."). I still could
not get errors related to ordinary direct TCP connections (between
nncp-call and nncp-daemon) (tried between FreeBSD boxes and
FreeBSD<->Debian one). Possibly that releases fixes your issue too.

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