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Posted by Billy Joe on 10/02/05 01:02
db wrote:
> "Billy Joe" <see.id.line@invalid.org> wrote in message
> news:FYGdndgvcO8PNaDeRVn-gg@adelphia.com...
>
> Bloody hell, here it goes... :)
>
Bloody hell, well done db, good info - and much more clear now - thanks.
<big snip>
Trying to restate my position non-technically:
My concern with IP blocking is the ease with which IPs can be changed.
Beside which, you refer to the "dynamics" quite often. Also, the necessity
for some one person (or many persons) being required to track malignant IPs
and the propensity of we humans to make mistakes, especially when keying in
numbers. A possible example: in the source URL you cited this appears
"beyond the network:63.216.0.0-63.223.255.255." That's 458,752 IP numbers.
If it's incorrect, that's a large number of IPs which can not connect to the
WPN (should everyone eventually use the DLL). Can they all be malicious??
On another hand: Do we care? I don't, but you've said that you do.
I prefer behavior blocking. And yes, as you've noted, I'd allow the
behavior to continue while, hopefully, dampening it significantly. The
premise being, let the beast enjoy some success, rather than stir it to new
levels of aggression.
While I'd prefer closing the secondary connection when abusive behavior is
detected - because it would then free up that access point for another,
possibly legitimate, secondary - I fear that it would make it far too
obvious to the beast that its effort was failing - giving rise to a new
effort. Dampening the aggressors effect would benefit almost all primaries.
In this scenario some DOS-like attacks would occur, but probably be
weatherable by all but those who should never have been primaries to begin
with (good riddance!).
No matter what method is ultimately employed, it is right now a moment of
opportunity - the WinMX community, in its entirety, needs a solution. I'd
venture further to say that our typical RUSH TO IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION may
have produced a methodology which is far from best. It instigates IP
blocks. Somehow I see their people and our people sitting at consoles and
typing madly like the schlockiest of TV melodramas with the fastest
typist(s) hoisting one for the queens ;-0)
BJ
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