Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections

[Robert Pluim]

Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <address@hidden> writes:

>> Won't that cause problems for users of sites that use fail2ban to lock
>> people out after failed login attempts ? It might be convenient, but
>> would need a user option so it could be disabled.
>>
>
> I think exponential backoff and a max-retry is in order.

Iʼd argue for simplicity: try the connection, if it fails because too
much time was spent answering the nsm questions, retry once. That way
any true failure gets quickly communicated to the user.

Robert