Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 14-sep-2007, at 22:34, Greg Skinner wrote:

> When routing connectivity could be restored quickly, the maintained  
> state
> at both ends of the TCP connection would allow the application to
> proceed normally.  However, this practice doesn't seem to have made it
> into the application-writing community at large, because lots of
> applications fail for just this reason.

What I experienced is that when logged in to a Unix machine from a  
Windows machine, if the address went away or the connectivity was  
lost and an ICMP unreachable came back, the Windows box would  
terminate the session, while pretty much everything else would keep  
the session alive for some time so you could put the address back /  
restore connectivity and the session was still there if the other  
side hand't timed out / reset.

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