Re: Today's Windows Trivia Event

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

The reason I don't like timeouts is because I don't know how far away 
the host is to begin with. It might be 2 seconds away, which makes any 
reasonably timeout moot. So Neil wins the shell! :>

-dave


Chris Anley wrote:

> Another solution; use select(), and a non-blocking socket...
>
> i = 1;
> ioctlsocket( s, FIONBIO, (unsigned long *)&i );
>
> Then implement the timeout of your choice with select(). If you're 
> banner grabbing, you might want to
>
> setsockopt( s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, ...
>
> to set a recieve timeout. Also, you might want calls to block after 
> the connect, so you can set the socket to blocking again with
>
> i = 0;
> ioctlsocket( s, FIONBIO, (unsigned long *)&i );
>
> Probably less tidy than you wanted, but that should work.
>
>      -chris.
>
> Dave Aitel wrote:
>
> > Conundrum:
> > setsockopt(sock,SO_DONOTSUCK);


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