3 Jan
2001
3 Jan
'01
3:52 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Adam Back wrote:
One of the problems that efnext is trying to address, and a cause of network instability is DOS attacks against servers by little kiddies that want to take over channels.
So what they should do is fix those problems robustly. Instead they're using central control as a "fix".
AFAIK, the main changes related to DoS resilience have nothing to do with centralized control, but rather making the low level operation of the server network less visible. Nothing inherently wrong with that, I think. Remote k and the new ojoin are what people worry about. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university