Stopping connection retry eventually

[Lee Doughty <ld...@vt.edu>]

Hello,

What does the community think about adding at least an option to stop
retrying connections if they fail for to long?

I know a lot of us have automation to shut down machines, which is not
always connected to guacamole intelligently.

When they hit retry, it never stops. I've had log messages last for 5 days
with a user trying every 15 seconds... Made me think this feature might be
useful.

I would suggest the retry cutoff be a # of attempts, that is
configurable... Maybe add a connection property? Or maybe a server config

-Lee

Re: Stopping connection retry eventually

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 6:18 AM Lee Doughty <ld...@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> What does the community think about adding at least an option to stop retrying connections if they fail for to long?
>
> I know a lot of us have automation to shut down machines, which is not always connected to guacamole intelligently.
>
> When they hit retry, it never stops. I've had log messages last for 5 days with a user trying every 15 seconds... Made me think this feature might be useful.
>
> I would suggest the retry cutoff be a # of attempts, that is configurable... Maybe add a connection property? Or maybe a server config
>

I think that:
* Default behavior should be kept as-is.
* It's a great idea to add a Connection Attribute that would allow
admins to limit the number of retries on a per-connection basis, and
possibly add a default option to guacamole.properties that could
override this system-wide.

-NIck

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