- (Host 106) now has deamon processes that will respond to RFCs on
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- sockets 7 and 9.
-
A few administrative type decisions were made, to which I
- would like to solicit comments.
-
First, if our machine is too full to support another deamon
- process, the pro-offered connection will be refused; that is, a
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- CLS will be sent in response to the RFC on socket 7 or 9.
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- Second, if no activity takes place for two consecutive minutes
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- (no characters received on input, or output blocked waiting for
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- allocation), the connection will be aborted.
-
Does anyone see the need or desirability for the third
- service in this set: a random character generator? Many systems
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- provide programs like "TTYTST" available over the standard login
-
- connection, but there would be no difficulty in creating a server
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- connection (like ECHO) offering just this limited service. I'm
-
- sure that it would be useful for new NCPs, as well as statistics
-
- gathering.
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[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
[ direction of Alex McKenzie. 1/97 ]
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