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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:43:10 -0700
From: "Taj Khattra" <taj.khattra@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] telnet vs. godaddy whois
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>  read the section of the rfc i mentioned earlier.  it probably ought to probe
>  only after a retransmission timeout period

i believe bsd-based tcp stacks also send 1-byte zero-window probes
but use a persist timer that starts at approx. 5 seconds (*)

i wonder if godaddy's tcp does not reset in that case - anyone care to verify?

(*) section 4 of
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/lin.a