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Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ?

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In article <87liryrc0c.fsf@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk>, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote: 

> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
> > fld@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote:
> 
> >> I need to know what is recommended practice for <quitting>.
> >
> > It's a bit unclear to me what you're talking about -- you're
> > mentioning a lot of different things.
> >
> > If you're talking about the NNTP protocol, best practice is something
> > like
> >
> > - reuse one connection for at least minutes
> > - but tolerate that the server disconnects you if you're idle
> > - use the QUIT command to quit
> >
> > For more details, see RFC 3977.
> 
> The important point is that the connection must be closed when its
> finished with; whether this is done via QUIT (the "preferred method",
> though as far as I can see this is just arbitrary bureaucracy) or
> closing the connection directly is secondary.
> 
> -- 
I speculate that:
= the correct procedure, to economise on inet resources,
is to actively close the connection, instead of relying on
time-out.
= when I hacked the code, i considered it to be ok, once
I'd received the d/l-ed article; but the protocol requires
a further 'signal' to notify the server that the send-article
has been successfully completed.
= while the server is waiting for this missing confirmation,
 it receives another/several requests from the same IP, and
 it has been appropriately programmed to identify such
 multiple requests from a single IP as <an attack>.
 
 What do the network experts say?
 
 == Chris Glur.
 

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? Too many connections from your IP address ? fld@informatik.uni-bremen.de - 2011-11-02 01:39 +0000
  Re: ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-11-02 02:24 +0000
    Re: ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2011-11-02 02:53 +0000
    Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ? fld@informatik.uni-bremen.de - 2011-11-02 11:24 +0000
    Re: ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-11-02 11:37 +0000
      Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-11-02 15:38 +0000
        Re: Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-11-02 19:15 +0000
  Re: ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-11-02 09:31 +0000
    Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-11-02 18:50 +0000
      Re: Re (2): ? Too many connections from your IP address ? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-11-03 10:21 +0000

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