From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:23:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3e2l5rs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKDRQS4M=0WuFt0G79s=f=pPGDLxohBUY7HxrTiUA5NM7Y_GHA@mail.gmail.com> (Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:27:44 +0100")
Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I think exponential backoff and a max-retry is in order.
Iʼd argue for simplicity: try the connection, if it fails because too
much time was spent answering the nsm questions, retry once. That way
any true failure gets quickly communicated to the user.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-23 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-20 20:06 [RFC] automatically retrying network connections Robert Pluim
2018-07-21 15:21 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:28 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 16:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-22 23:24 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 11:18 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:29 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-23 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-22 10:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 10:41 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 13:32 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-22 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:27 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-23 8:23 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-07-23 20:57 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-22 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:26 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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