Hello! On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Adam Fisk wrote: > It certainly has had that effect, although I wonder in practice how much using > HTTP would have made it more vulnerable. It didn't make Gnutella any more > vulnerable, although BitTorrent is more closely integrated with web servers.
I think it's a bad idea for Gnutella to use HTTP for downloads. Consider this: http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~elathan/publications/gdos-paper-final.pdf I don't know, literally, if the HTTP choice made Gnutella vulnerable, but, at least, I can tell that this choice made Gnutella dangerous for Web Servers. Regards, -- Elias Athanasopoulos Distributed Computing Systems (DCS) Institute of Computer Science (ICS/FORTH) Heraklion, Crete A bug can become a feature by documenting it. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
