In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 19.32, Brad Knowles wrote: >> The bigger problem is that many abusive clients become even more >> abusive when they are denied access. Many sites in the pool are >> already doing firewall-type things locally, and they have found that >> when they firewall an abusive client, the situation goes from bad to >> worse. > > I see this claimed again and again, and always people speak up to deny it. > My experience, too, is that blacklisted clients (drop at firewall) go away > after quite a short time; I've never seen them go berserk.) This is my experience also. I haven't blocked many clients, but two that I did were because every packet I sent to them caused an ICMP host unreachable packet to be sent back to me, effectively doubling my inbound load. Also, many people have asymmetric connections with the upload rate being less than the download, so even if the abusive clients don't stop, you are saving the more important part of the bandwidth by not sending a reply back. -wayne _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
