[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connection problem (PR#358)

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 04 May 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Now how should we solve this problem (the send buffer gets filled
> > and the client doesn't reply fast enough)?
> > 
> > 1) increase the buffer dynamically forever? (vulnerable to DoS
> > attacks)
> 
> Well, I'm convinced I could come up with about 100.000 ways to DoS a
> freeciv server. So this isn't really an arugment.

Agreed.

> > 2) just discard those packets (it's what we are doing now)
> > 3) close the client connection and clean up the buffer?
> > 
> > I'm in favour of 3.  Any objections? :)
> 
> One could also increase the static buffer for now and see if the
> problem goes away.
> 
>       Falk

Yes; closing the connection is not nice if I have understod what it means
correctly. Since the bug shoved up in the first place it must happen
pretty frequently.
2) is not nice either, of course.

-Thue