Subj : Re: C Origins
To   : Shitty
From : Denn
Date : Wed May 27 2026 08:19:43

  Re: Re: C Origins
  By: Shitty to Nightfox on Wed May 27 2026 12:46 am

 Ni>> I think an inactivity timeout is still very important these days.  These
 Ni>> days, it's fairly common for bots to connect to a BBS via telnet, and
 Ni>> without an inactivity timeout, they could just sit there and tie up the
 Ni>> node.  It would be likely that bots could connect to all nodes on your
 Ni>> BBS and tie them up so that users would be unable to log in.  The
 Ni>> inactivity timeout helps prevent that.

 Sh> That makes sense, but it sounds like a BBS software shortfall. They
 Sh> shouldn't tie up a node until the user is authenticated. Wouldn't that fix
 Sh> it?

 As soon as the node is hit by a request it is tied up until the request either dropped or denied. It's not a software shortfall.

 

Denn

....I've been using Vim for the past 3 years, because I have no idea how to exit.

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