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 :-).