On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:06:54PM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote: > >>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <ian at hawk.freenetproject.org> writes: > > IC> It seems that there are a small number of nodes which are > IC> receiving a disproportionate amount of traffic. > > How can you possibly know this, Ian? What makes you think this is true > at all?
Because people are reporting that their datastores tend to have one or two nodes to which almost all references are pointing to. > IC> Only one reference to each node is permitted in the datastore. > > You have really got to be joking. WHAT? Why? The point is that it should not be possible for a node to "take over" your datastore by being the reference for most or all pieces of data. This is even a viable attack, since a node could always set itself as the datasource on all messages, creating a positive feedback loop (more references in the datastore lead to still more references in the datastore). I would suggest some limit, maybe more than 1, on the number of items in the datastore with the same reference, to prevent this attack. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010618/586b3d0f/attachment.pgp>
