Re: Patch for NIS+

[Ulrich Drepper]

Alexander Belopolsky <address@hidden> writes:

> I propose the following patch which fixes the problem of finding
> NIS+ server on a slow network with fast clients.  Proposed patch
> makes the client retry with increasing timeouts when it does not get
> response.

This patch is severely punishing those which don't have a crappy
network setup when they really have problems at some point.  Instead
of the 5sec timeout they now face a 95sec timeout, for every single
programs which uses the code.  This is not acceptable.

The code itself, after some moving and cleaning up, seems usable but
I'd rather see not so many runs of the loop (at most three I guess)
with larger steps in the timeout value.  maybe 5, 7, and 10secs, or 4,
8, 12sec.

Ideally this should be a configuration parameter so that only those
who inflict the problem on themselves are punished.

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