On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Evan Daniel wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 5:49 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> You also need an escape-route mechanism - a way to find an entrance >> into >> another network once regular routing has exhausted the local network. > > Doesn't this allow an attacker to selectively DOS the bottleneck > points by sending out requests for non-existant data? > > Evan Daniel
If we allow the requestor to specify which network they are trying to get to, then maybe (but the node still can rejectoverload like any other). I think it would work better to the negative; specify which networks *not* to route to, this would not only help on a reject of a network-gateway node, but it also lets nodes w/o a good routing table to use the same mechanism. -- Robert Hailey
