On 2010/10/23 (Oct), at 1:55 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Proposal: Only route high HTL requests (say 15+) to nodes which are > no longer "newbies", that is, which have uptime of over 5 minutes. > Nodes which are newbie are not dropped even if they are at the > bottom of the LRU; nodes over this have survived through being useful. > > This should increase the cost of attacks involving maintaining > connections to lots of opennet peers. > > The catch is that this might affect routing resulting in new nodes > having too few long links???
I think you over-estimate the disruption. On the positive side, not routing requests to new-nodes (or at least not as a first choice) might avoid the temporary dead-ends created by bootstrapping nodes. Of course if we never route to a "new" node, it will never prove itself and graduate from being "new". -- Robert Hailey
