svn commit: r281959 - head/usr.bin/whois

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:

> On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 16:51 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:51:44AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > >   Attempt to connect to alternate addresses if the connect doesn't
> > >   succeed in 180ms, and cut wait time between connection attempts
> > >   in half for each additional, if no connection was established.
> > 
> > 180ms is very short. I have such latency over 2G, 3G and 4G most of the
> > time, soo wouldn't this make whois pretty much useless on such
> > connections?
> 
> Google Chromium/Chrome uses a 300ms timeout when falling back from IPv6
> to IPv4. Maybe the 180ms timeout should be increased to match?

Acceptable timeout must be 2000ms minimum (two satelite link with some
reserve). Independently from google/chrome/microsoft/ibm/etc.