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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r281959 - head/usr.bin/whois
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:51:44AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
>   Attempt to connect to alternate addresses if the connect doesn't
>   succeed in 180ms, and cut wait time between connection attempts
>   in half for each additional, if no connection was established.

180ms is very short. I have such latency over 2G, 3G and 4G most of the
time, soo wouldn't this make whois pretty much useless on such
connections?

Joerg