On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:09:31 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I think it was Lamport who said that you can't tell 'down' from 'disconnected' (did the remote server crash, or is there a network disconnection? maybe the network is just congested, there's no way to tell).
I can tell: If I've been getting responses in under 20 ms and now I haven't gotten a response in 2 minutes, then the dadgum thing is down :-).