I've found that icmp-admin-prohibited packets sent as a response consistently quenches abusive clients.
Sent from my phone, -Jeff On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:04 AM, "Tim Shoppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelson Minar wrote: >> I was surprised by this behaviour; I'd assumed the abusive clients >> were >> so insane they wouldn't even notice if the server was up. > > Opposite of my finding. > > In fact, I find that most of the insane clients poll more frequently > when the server doesn't reply or replies with wacko and/or > Kiss-Of-Death packets. It's so bad that I find that not replying, > or replying with kiss-of-death to abusive clients, will triple or > quadruple my overall request rate (some of the insane clients > go from once a minute to multiple requests every second in > response to kiss-of-death.) > > (I'm surprsied we don't talk more about Kiss-Of-Death here. > It's just so fun to use the phrase!) > > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
