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

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>IIRC, this was because any case where the server can unilaterally close
>>the connection makes me worried about a naive client inadvertently
>>DOS'ing the server.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I can see that part.
> 
> 
>>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.

So, are we saying that we can omit the discussion of the server closing 
the connection and just stick with returning 483 to subsequent commands?

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