On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:56:28PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Right now there is no way to make a node stop sending queries. This
> would be useful e.g. when a node with a version lower than lastknowngood
> is querying. It would be very useful if a QueryReject could include a
> field saying "Don't query again". A well-behaved node would never send
> queries to that node after receiving such a message.

Practically, in terms of keeping a blacklist, we would probably simply
remove the node from the routing table. MAYBE a limited list of nodes
that permanently rejected us would be useful.
> 
> It would also be useful for other administrative rejections. Who knows
> which policies people might want to implement - say, detecting bad
> behaviour and rejecting all queries from that node. Of course a
> malicious node might not listen to that query reject, but if that
> becomes a problem it is possible to follow up with a DROP rule in
> iptables...
> 
> 
> /Benny
> 
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