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27 Mar 2003, 04:54 AM
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Essential Contributor
Join Date: May 2002
Location: UK
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amusing email story
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27 Mar 2003, 05:02 AM
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The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jan 2002
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The first several lines are funny...
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27 Mar 2003, 09:50 AM
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Cornerstone of the Community
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Germany
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That was cool! ;-)
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8 Apr 2003, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bangalore, India
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Was it phony???
Well, it just struck me
 that at least the last part of that story must have been made up. AFAIK (and I know too little, so correct me if I am wrong), the timeout is the time my server is going to wait for a ping kind of request to go to the server and *come back*. So, if the timeout was 3 millisecond and all things happened via the straight line route+, only a server within 3 millilightseconds/2 , which would be less than 250 miles. Oooops, so if the default timeout was 3 milliseconds, servers beyond 250 miles should have definitely failed. I think the default timeout ought to have been at least 7 to 9 milliseconds for the error he describes to have happened.  Anshul_____________________________________ +I imagine that now-a days things must go up in space and come back usually and that would mean increasing the distance. |
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