RFC 8305 Happy Eyeballs in OpenSSH

Kim Minh Kaplan openssh-unix-dev.mindrot.org at ml.kim-minh.com
Sat Feb 24 18:05:53 AEDT 2018


Darren Tucker writes:

> I did a patch implementing something somewhat similar a while back
> (not the 250ms delay, though).
>
> https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=148421494521398&w=2

Yes this is quite similar.  At the time you said:

> I'm still not sure it's worth doing, though.  I can see some
> downsides: it'll spam server logs with "Did not receive identification
> string" and consume MaxStartups connections.

With the 250 milliseconds delay the downsides you mentionned do not
exist anymore. Maybe it's worth doing now

Kim Minh.


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