SSL connection timeout (and 2 patches)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon May 19 17:39:18 UTC 2008


Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

>> You may want to drop client connections that have gone away entirely on
>> a faster time frame than the client timeout policy, if you can detect
>> them in the network stack.

> The value of KEEPALIVE seems to be more that 2 hours whereas
> clienttimeout is set to 10 minutes in 2.4.4 and 30 minutes in 2.5 so it
> will be helpful only for people who put more that 120 minutes (which is
> a large value).

Yeah, but people change it; for example, at Stanford, we set KEEPALIVE
globally to ten minutes.

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