On Friday 15 June 2007 01:29, Lloyd Bryant wrote: > >How in hell would that be helpful for gnutella? > > It wouldn't.
That was a rhetoric question :-) > What this person is attempting to do is create a DDoS > (Distributed Denial of Service) tool. Basically, take every query > that is received by a given node, and reply to it showing a matching > file on the machine that attacker wishes to DoS. Perhaps it would be possible to make such a behaviour less effective. The hostile node must be connected to the gnutella network through some other ultrapeers. At least the directly adjacent UPs could possibly detect such a behaviour with reasonable certainty and then stop forwarding any search requests to the hostile node. Don't simply drop the connection, otherwise the hostile node would just reconnect to another ultrapeer. If most ultrapeers (not only gtk-gnutella) had this detection mechanism in place, that could be helpful. h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list Gtk-gnutella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
