Re: Limiting access to replay in 1.4

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> Because what they are trying to do shouldn't be allowed as a matter of policy.

I strongly disagree, but then again we're not administering the same
servers so I guess that figures :).

> > To me it sounds just perfect - allow people to do what they want, but
> > don't let them eat more than so-and-so-many-percent bandwidth (... or
> > cpu, or memory, that would be useful too.)
>
> Rate limting is still a DoS - albeit much slower. -- justin

I'm going to get picky with the terms, bear with me..

If setup correctly (fx. per-user-per-host), rate limiting _does_
prevent DoS, just not DDoS.

And rate limiting can even prohibit what we could call "accidental
DDoS-like occurances", where many users does something stupid like
check out all the tags by accident.

I think preventing DoS but not DDoS is perfectly fine for the vast
majority of users, since DDoS is generally a much harder problem to
solve and a much less frequently occurring one, at least if
"accidental DoS-like occurances" is excluded from the count.

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Received on Wed Apr 12 18:19:32 2006