From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 09:41:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16762 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16756 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA03741; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:37:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601291737.KAA03741@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Why RFC1323 is disabled on freefall and freebsd.cdrom.com ? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:37:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601291004.CAA29539@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 29, 96 02:04:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >I was wondering why RFC1323 timestamps are disabled on both freefall > >and freebsd.cdrom.com > > > >I know one reason not to have them is that they defeat VJ header > >compression, but I don't see the point in having them disabled on > >freebsd.cdrom.com > > > >If there are no good reasons, could they be enabled ? > > It is disabled on both machines because they are public FTP/WWW servers, > and RFC1323 (and other TCP extensions) don't work for all people. I thought it was because it defeated compression for PPP. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.