max-connections in incoming.conf

Katsuhiro Kondou kondou at nec.co.jp
Mon Sep 13 09:52:58 UTC 1999


In article <ylogf76w0u.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
	Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote;

} Wouldn't it be better to teach INN to reject connections, with an error,
} from a host that has exceeded its max-connections?  No new keys needed,
} and I think that addresses the case where this change would really be
} useful.

I think so, but that part of the code was written by Marc,
and he said, if I remember correctly, his peer tries to
connect quickly after the disconnect and he wanted to hold
a while not to reconnect again.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou


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