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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 02:58:47 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@pair.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd, etc.)
Message-ID:  <20020621235847.GE5836@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3D13A4DA.28F3B169@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020621000924.GA2178@hades.hell.gr> <3D129CA8.EFADA4FF@mindspring.com> <1024656206.277.9.camel@cocaine> <3D13A4DA.28F3B169@mindspring.com>

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On 2002-06-21 15:12 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Someone made the comment about people sitting behind a NAT, so that
> the number of connections from a given IP is actually legitimate
> traffic.  This rate limitation is targetted at an attacker.

Actually I was thinking more of ReGet and Godzilla-style software used
by some users to play unfair and suck more bandwidth out of an FTP
server, by opening a zillion sockets and downloading a single file in
chunks.

- Giorgos


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