Hi,

At November 26, 2003, 05:54, HKlemt wrote:

> <ts@i...> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > Isn't that a very old story, that events can't be safely
>> > used whenever a firewall comes into the playground?
>>
>> Forgotten to say, until Firebird 1.5 of course, due to the
>> available RemoteAuxPort parameter in firebird.conf. ;-)


> hmm, in my point of view it is ok when it does not connect, but it
> is in fact not ok, that nobody else can work on the server, after
> there is a single connection, that tried to connect with that way.

> I see it almost similar to the famous "Ping of Death". There must be
> a better way than just stop work on the server side, when there is a
> connection problem with a client, for whatever reason

I think this could be addressed with the revision/creation of a better
wire protocol for FB 2.0.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)