Why is ReGet breaking things?

From: Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 07:09:52 EST


On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:29:46PM +0200, Sergey Kubushin wrote:
>
> I can kill any of them. Have you heard, e.g. for such thing like a ReGet for
> windoze? Have you seen how this "smart" program opens 300+ ftp sessions for
> a same file which is happened to be a 600+ Mbyte image of a distribution
> CD? And it's not the end of the intelligence of a beast, it sends an ABORT
> after each portion got (several Kbytes) and then tries to reget from the
> aborted position. They are smart, they do know they will get the file even
> the connection is flaky... I don't even know how to combat this other then
> filtering those who has been caught redhanded out...

Does this kill a Linux server? I dont think it should. It would be
interesting to put together a test program that did this (I dont have
ReGet or a windows machine for that matter) and see what is falling apart.

Jim

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