On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:12:11PM +1000, fish wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:14:16PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> > Suggestion:
> > What if we were to reject all queries from any node which either has no
> > return address, or we have tried to contact and it has never succeeded
> > and failed more than once? This would substantially discourage nodes
> > from antisocial behaviour, eliminate some useless load, and so on.
> > Especially since what connections they do have will be quickly occupied
> > with trailing fields. That will however change when we have
> > multiplexing, and this would have to be reevaluated. Any suggestions for
> > wider freeloading measures would be interesting too.
> 
> Hrm, how would this effect uses who are stuck behind NAT's that they are
> not in a position to work around (and hence a node can never open a connection
> to)?

They would not be able to make queries. Their network topology forces
them to be freeloaders, and we should treat them as such. Or so the
argument goes. We MAY be able to do some sort of firewall circumvention
system using shadow nodes as discussed elsewhere - but it is relatively
low priority at the moment unless it becomes easy (which it won't until
muxing is in, at least).
> 
>       -- jj

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