- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:41:10 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Jan Starke <jan.starke@outofbed.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <20110620211911.GL2897@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:03:32PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> There is no possible timeout value which will both serve slow clients >> in bad connectivity (iPhone4 ?) and prevent DoS attacks. > >Yes in practice you can because even with bad connectivity you're generally >interested by covering holes as large as 30-60 seconds, Well your sever may not crash, but it does not serve legitimate traffic either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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