Re: [freenet-chat] Paranoia

[Ian Clarke]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:04:16PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> Is Freenet getting DoS'ed???

Nightmares, and now Paranoia - have you been eating too much cheese? ;)

It would be interesting to think how Freenet could be DoSed,
theoretically any DoS attack would be distributed among the nodes on the
network - assuming that there is a reasonably large number of nodes, the
DoS attack sould be of limited effectiveness.

I wonder whether the high message load is causing MessageMemories to be
forgotten?

Ian.

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Re: [freenet-chat] Paranoia

[Michael Carmack]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:04:16PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
>
> Is Freenet getting DoS'ed???

Hmm... I was wondering the same thing. I recently shut down my
insertion scripts because of the "Tsunami" report, yet the free
connections on my primary node are filling up _very_ quickly
after a restart.

I don't fully understand the architecture of Freenet. What
defense is there if someone were to try to flood the network
with bogus material to flush out the real stuff? For example,
I could imagine taking an MP3 file of nothing but static,
scripting a random change to the ID3 tag so it would always
generate a different CHK, and re-inserting it over and over. 
How does the network prevent this kind of attack?

m.


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Is Freenet getting DoS'ed???




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