On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Peter Saint-Andre<[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that >> part of that flood was coming from our server too, since yesterday we >> had a bot registering accounts. We blocked it in few minutes, but it >> was able send a bulk of messages. In ejabberd there is an option for >> limiting the number of registrations per IP, the problem is that in >> our case almost all the clients are natted in large networks > > Yes, that is a challenge. :(
Yep, I think that IP based limiting is the standard in all servers, but this is a non option if you target mobile clients. The only solution is using captchas or some external method (as we are going to do now) -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Ooros srl jabber id: [email protected]
