[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-02.txt

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Regardless, I do feel like we're misleading to client authors if the
>> spec says only "the server will reject all further commands" when in
>> practice servers are quite likely to close the connection, even if
>> somewhere in a different document we warn them that the server can 
>> close
>> the connection at any time.
>
> This I'm not sure about, just in that I'm not sure why the server would
> need to close the connection.  Surely if it starts returning 483 to 
> every
> command, the client will either go back and try doing this again, or 
> will
> eventually give up.  As a server author, I'd tend to just throw the 
> server
> into a reject everything mode and not worry too much about it.

I was basing this on the fact that INN's nnrpd does close the 
connection on a failed AUTHINFO USER/PASS, which is a vaguely parallel 
case.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org