[ On Wednesday, June 5, 2002 at 00:06:20 (+1000), Darren Reed wrote: ]
> Subject: thoughts on limiting connections to a socket
>
> Hmmm, the only real way this would make a difference is if the
> lookup to see if the n/host was being exceeded was done on behalf
> of the application listening (rather than the kernel processing
> the IP input queue).  ie. if it doesn't get done on behalf of the
> listener then it may as well be done by ipf, right ?
> 
> Comments ?

maybe TCP needs an equivalent of SMTP's "421 please come back later"
response so it can say I'm here, and I'm listening, but I'm too damn
busy right now....

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