From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
To: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:57:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKDRQS5AyrQ9D+xQ-yXNOpUJKPXU1Pe_q4KLsUnhZwEvXf71cQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3e2l5rs.fsf@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Sounds good to me too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-23 20:57 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
2018-07-23 20:57 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong [this message]
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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