By "toggle 3041 on and off" I mean decide if 3041 is appropriate or not for that connection. Now, if the answer is yes, should a new address be generated or should you use an existing one, this is, IMHO, implementation dependent. I think it would make sense to generate a new one per connection for security concerns, but I understand that there may be some performance issue in doing so.
- Alain. On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:55 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Alain,
By "toggle 3041 on and off", do you mean toggling address selection to use
an existing 3041 address, or generating a new 3041 address for each new
connection that wants it?
Brian
Alain Durand wrote:
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 05:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And even 'application based' is not enough. Think about an application
It should be something like that, but I think Alain was suggesting that
a node-based policy would not be sufficient. It should be at least
application based policy, since different applications will not
work with 3041 addresses.
br,
John
like netscape. As a web browser, in its dialog to web servers, it may
want
to benefit from 3041. As a Mail user agent, when talking to its SMTP
server,
it may want not to use 3041 because the anti-spam rules might reject its
mail (no reverse path DNS records), when talking to a FTP server,it may
also be rejected for the same reason.
So a socket option seems to me the right way to toggle 3041 on and off.
- Alain.
ps: btw, in case of application level failure as described above,
should the app that was using 3041 retry with a regular address?
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