On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:10:48PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> We should not reject requests because we have too many transfers
> numerically. This is critical because it could be used in a very cheap
> attack. Then we have to consider whether we want to reject when
> transfers are occupying over a certain amount of bandwidth.

Firstly, it wouldn't be numerical - it would be based on upstream 
bandwidth utilization.  Secondly, someone can *always* do a DoS attack 
on a given Freenet node - as they can on any server.

Ian.

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