My idea wasn't supposed to address the denial-of-service problem, it was supposed to solve the getting-bogged-down-in-requests problem.
Anyways, despite my ignorance, we have servers whose sole purpose is to process MySQL queries. Yipee. Leaving us with finding a feasible means of allowing this to be publicly accessible without it serving as the base of a denial of service attack. What if we forced queries to run at a really slow speed; in fact, people would have to put in their email addresses so they could be e-mailed the result? And once a limit has been reached for processor capability, the public query terminal would read something like "Sorry, but the query server is too busy now. Try again later." On 10/26/07, Simetrical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/26/07, James Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this *have* to be on the toolserver, or can we take the databases > and > > put it on its own server dedicated for querying? > > Of course you can. Then those dedicated servers get DoS'd, > deliberately or otherwise, and you're back where you started. > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l >
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