Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!WSL.DEC.COM!kent 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 References: <11494@dcatla.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 4 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.