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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:04:06 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why RFC1323 is disabled on freefall and freebsd.cdrom.com ? 
Message-ID:  <199601291004.CAA29539@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:42:14 %2B0100." <199601290942.KAA05121@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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>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.
   It will remain disabled until such time that 99.999% of the people out
there can deal with TCP extensions. Otherwise, we'll be getting way too many
bug reports. Wcarchive, for example, serves 20000 people a day; I'm sure you
can imagine the extremely high probability that more than one person per day
will run into this problem. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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