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Indeed. But it is easy to forget that both these protocols were devised at a time when 4Mb/s was fast and 300 baud quite normal. In those circumstances, last time outs measured in minutes probably made sense.

The problem isn't that there was anything specifically wrong with the original formulations of those defaults. More that they have never been brought into line with modern hardware as time has gone on. They are only defaults, but that does means that they tend to get used by default.

Maybe IPv6 has corrected some of these archaic leftovers?

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In reply to Re^6: Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated) by BrowserUk
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