Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections

[Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>]

On Sun 22 Jul 2018, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> one of the consequences of asking the user questions during network
>> connection setup is that the server they're trying to connect to might
>> have decided to close the connection by the time they've finished
>> answering.
>
> Yes, the NSM should reconnect if the user says "go ahead" to the NSM
> warning and the server has closed the connection.  The reason that
> landed on the back burner is that servers seem to mostly have long
> timeouts, so this turned out to be less of a problem in practice than I
> expected.  (I.e., I don't recall seeing a bug report about this, which
> is just plain weird.)
>
> We could also reverse the logic a bit and have the NSM always shut down
> the connection before prompting.  This will make network connections
> (that prompt an NSM warning) be somewhat slower, but it shouldn't be a
> big deal.

Won't that cause problems for users of sites that use fail2ban to lock
people out after failed login attempts ? It might be convenient, but
would need a user option so it could be disabled.

    AndyM