# Yugabyte Geodistributed Intermittent Network Availability

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/yugabyte-geodistributed-intermittent-network-availability/1540>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 23, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/yugabyte-geodistributed-intermittent-network-availability/1540 "2022-03-23T18:47:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![4wardobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/e480ec/32.png) [@4wardobserver](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/4wardobserver)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/yugabyte-geodistributed-intermittent-network-availability/1540/1 "2022-03-23T18:47:42Z")

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I am interested in Yugabyte’s ability to be geo-distributed. However, I am wondering if the protocal between the different nodes can tolerate DIL conditions (see: [https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a\_glossary:d:dil](https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:d:dil) ) where the network is not reliable. Are there timeouts? Can they change? Are there protocols/defaults for collisions?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![dorian\_yugabyte](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/dorian_yugabyte/32/206_2.png) [@dorian\_yugabyte](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/dorian_yugabyte)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/yugabyte-geodistributed-intermittent-network-availability/1540/2 "2022-03-23T22:15:22Z")

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> [@4wardobserver](#):
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> where the network is not reliable

The database is not supposed to work over unreliable internet connection. It’s supposed to be run in datacenters (at least the synchronous replication).

> [@4wardobserver](#):
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> Are there timeouts? Can they change?

See [yb-master configuration reference | YugabyteDB Docs](https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/reference/configuration/yb-master/#raft-flags)

> [@4wardobserver](#):
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> Are there protocols/defaults for collisions?

There are for asynchronous replication, where last write wins: [xCluster | YugabyteDB Docs](https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/docdb-replication/async-replication/)