On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Larry Nedry wrote:
Hi All, The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host doesn't resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host. But I've noticed that some hosts that don't resolve will continuously retry and never seem to disconnect. Sometimes this goes on for days.
Do they really fail to disconnect *and* continuously retry? That combination seems umlikely to me.
Is there a good reason that I shouldn't patch this plugin to return DENY_DISCONNECT, perhaps after x number of failed retries?
Why not DENYSOFT_DISCONNECT? That would deal with the DNS outage case.
