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mod_s2s_smacks_timeout: Use mod_smacks to close stale s2s connections
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date Wed, 03 Aug 2022 03:14:17 +0200
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1 # Introduction
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3 This module closes s2s connections when
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4 [mod_smacks][doc:modules:mod_smacks] reports that a connection has not
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5 received a timely acknowledgement as requested, indicating that the
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6 connection is broken or the remote server is not responding.
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8 With the connection closed, the next stanza to be directed to that
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9 server will trigger Prosody to establish a new connection, instead of
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10 queueing it on the potentially broken connection.
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12 This should prevent messages from being stuck in a queue for a
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13 potentially long time before being bounced back to the sender as
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14 delivery failure reports.
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16 Normally the amount of time it takes for a broken connection to time out
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17 is determined by TCP.
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19 If this is deemed sensible behavior then it will likely be merged into
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20 Prosody itself somewhere.