Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

[Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>]

On 1/3/21 3:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open
> connections; I remember that used to be a problem.

Out of curiosity, has anyone investigated if it's possible to hold open 
a low-traffic, long-lived TCP session without actually storing state 
using techniques similar to syncookies and do so in a compatible manner? 
 I suspect no since you don't have control over your peers sequence 
numbers, but then someone smarter than I came up with syncookies...
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Brandon Martin