On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote:
> > > - What is the average load reported by responses this node > forwarded, per > > > remote node > > > > Ahhh, this one could be interesting - you could use it to penalise nodes > which spam excessively. > > Actually, thinking about it, I don't think this will work. Requests are > usually distributed evenly across the keyspace, and downstream nodes only > know they are from this node - not which previous node they are from. So the > pain will be shared across all the peers sending us requests, including our > own local requests, and won't be identifiable as due to any single node. You > have to do it by volume, not by reported load. > But if a node is being abusive won't the nodes its requesting from tend to have a higher than average load? Perhaps you are right though, but this is the kind of thought-process we need. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org
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