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From: kent@WSL.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Needed: timeouts for connections to dead/dying hosts
Message-ID: <8812030203.AA02412@gnomee.pa.dec.com>
Date: 3 Dec 88 02:03:51 GMT
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Maybe you'd like your terminal server connections to time out after 10
or 20 seconds, but I don't. I want my Telnet connection to ride out
simple gateway crashes; a gateway that crashes and "immediately"
reboots shouldn't cause me to lose all my session state.