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Subject: Re: what is up with the PG mailing lists?
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:04:51 -0400
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:16:01PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> minutes, fail, etc ... I'm not sure if its a simple '2x' algorithm, but the
No, it's a progressive backoff with some randomisation in every
modern server I know of. That's because, if there's some periodic
issue that causes DoS, then just backing off the same period would do
it again. We already _had_ that nightmare on the Internet, and we
hope not to experience it again ;-)
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