Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 09:23:37 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: scottm@cs.ucla.edu Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <34792.928653817@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jun 1999 18:27:17 -0700" References: <199906060127.SAA00862@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>
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> The "poor sod" in this situation deserves something untoward, > IMNSHO. Protocols like ssh do send something periodically whereas > telnet doesn't. Telnet is a well-known security problem. As others > have pointed out, this is an endemic problem in applications > generally speaking, where a long-term "idle" connection isn't > treated as an exception or an an error. Some of us use only ssh for remote login *and* specifically turn off ssh keepalives, in order to keep login sessions up for weeks at at time. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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