On Tuesday 22 January 2008 18:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If Frost receives ALL_DATA_NOT_FOUND, it keeps retrying this index
> during next board updates.
> But the current DoS attack uses many ADNF, and together with the
> backload (days to download backward)
> it takes ages until a board completes to update.

I thought he was pointing them to a GIF / some evil content he inserted block 
by block...
> 
> My question is: what is a good way to re-request keys that got an
> ADNF? Try it exactly X times,
> or keep it trying if we request keys for today, but don't try them
> again if we download messages for
> previous days, or what? I know, in theory those keys could finally
> arrive after weeks, so what logic should
> we use?

Try it at some point in the vague future I suppose was the original idea. You 
could set max retries to 3 and never retry on ADNF, if the messages are 
reasonably expendable.
> 
> bback.

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