Closing Connections and the TCP Sockets Heaven

Story hour came early this week, when a colleague stuck his head in my office and asked why we wait before reusing an address on Windows Server 2003. So began a most harrowing tale, the strange case of the mysterious closing connections. It came from the beyond Once upon a time, in a protocol stack far, far away, H.245 sockets were dying inexplicably. Packet captures on both sides saw the other side as closing the connection immediately after it was (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  June 2nd, 2010  |  Filed under Development
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Determining a Timeout on That Network Event of Yours? Take Your Time

Last week, Mrs. Code of Contact decided to upgrade our internet connection. She talked to the ISP representative, who informed her of a special deal: she is entitled to a server-side service, either an anti-virus or anti-spam for the mail service, or something called “Safe net”. “Safe net” scans sites for malicious scripts and prevents access to sites that may harm the user’s computer. Since Mrs. Contact knows we have anti-virus and anti-spam, she selected the “safe-net” service. To make (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  November 26th, 2008  |  Filed under Development
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