Github user galen-pivotal commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/412#discussion_r104258182 --- Diff: geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/distributed/internal/tcpserver/TcpServer.java --- @@ -360,6 +360,13 @@ private void processRequest(final Socket sock) { versionOrdinal = (short) GOSSIP_TO_GEMFIRE_VERSION_MAP.get(gossipVersion); } else { // Close the socket. We can not accept requests from a newer version + try { + sock.getOutputStream().write("unknown protocol version".getBytes()); --- End diff -- Is there any risk of this being interpreted by anything other than garbage on the other side?
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