Re: Determining whether a TCP connection is up

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Another option is to kill connections after some time of inactivity,
> rather than leave them open and suffer a timeout next time we need to
> use it.

Yes.  But it's not very nice for the servers.  NNTP and IMAP servers do
the access control stuff upon connection, which can be
resource-intensive.

The earliest version of the ... Mozilla? or whatever they were called at
the time? (I think) ... news reader famously was written in a
connection-less method which made a news connection for every action it
made.  It DDoS-ed several NNTP servers.

Not that Gnus would have that effect.  >"?

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