current-users: Re: SUP retry times...

Subject: Re: SUP retry times...
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG, seebs@solon.com>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1996 14:22:43

> SUP: Can't connect to server for supfilesrv: Operation timed out
> SUP: Will retry in 105 seconds
> SUP: Can't connect to server for supfilesrv: Operation timed out
> SUP: Will retry in 47 seconds
> SUP: Can't connect to server for supfilesrv: Operation timed out
> SUP: Will retry in 78 seconds
> 
> I'm not worried about the timeouts, but where do these numbers come
> from?
> 
> 47?  Is this in an RFC somewhere?

If I remember correctly, these times are choosen randomly within an increasing
interval.
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