From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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To: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: what is up with the PG mailing lists? |
Date: | 2007-11-01 17:04:51 |
Message-ID: | 20071101170451.GS27676@crankycanuck.ca |
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:16:01PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> minutes, fail, etc ... I'm not sure if its a simple '2x' algorithm, but the
No, it's a progressive backoff with some randomisation in every
modern server I know of. That's because, if there's some periodic
issue that causes DoS, then just backing off the same period would do
it again. We already _had_ that nightmare on the Internet, and we
hope not to experience it again ;-)
A
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Andrew Sullivan | ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca
I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what
you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now.
--J.D. Baldwin
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