Bug 84513

Summary:	Kopete doesn't stop reconnecting
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Till Gerken <till.gerken>
Component:	libkopete	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	lamarque
Priority:	HI
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Till Gerken 2004-07-05 14:56:26 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

In case a server admin decides to temporarily closes the server (for maintenance or similar) and a Kopete user checked the "reconnect on disconnect" option, Kopete blindly keeps retrying until it succeeds.

Depending on the type of problem on the server, this can in the worst case lead to a DoS attack. Kopete should stop attempting to reconnect if a certain number of consecutive attempts failed.

Comment 1 Olivier Goffart 2004-08-27 21:48:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87641 ***

Comment 2 Richard Smith 2004-11-09 04:03:10 UTC

Same feature, different problems.

I've downgraded this to a wishlist; I'm not convinced it's a bug. Upon a persistent error (DNS failure, bad username, etc) auto-reconnect gives up. In other cases, the user can manually disconnect the account and it should stop trying.

Comment 3 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-03-20 02:47:50 UTC

This seems fixed in KDE SC 4.6.1. Closing this bug, reopen if you think it is still valid.