On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:27:44AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >> I mean the pending-write case is the most obvious. But what about resolver > >> caches, VPNs and the like?
> > What kind of data loss do you expect to arise from shutting down a VPN > > client without giving it time to save state? > I dont expect any data loss - hopefully protocols are not that > optimistic/broken. But with unclean shutdown you can affect external parties > with unexected errors. Like resolver problems, user not found and similiar > problems. Please explain why these third parties are doing something so braindead as to rely on the VPN connection only ever disappearing gracefully. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
