[freenet-dev] Alpha, Darknet routing, et al.

[Robert Hailey]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Evan Daniel wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2008 5:49 PM, Matthew Toseland  
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>> You also need an escape-route mechanism - a way to find an entrance  
>> into
>> another network once regular routing has exhausted the local network.
>
> Doesn't this allow an attacker to selectively DOS the bottleneck
> points by sending out requests for non-existant data?
>
> Evan Daniel

If we allow the requestor to specify which network they are trying to  
get to, then maybe (but the node still can rejectoverload like any  
other). I think it would work better to the negative; specify which  
networks *not* to route to, this would not only help on a reject of a  
network-gateway node, but it also lets nodes w/o a good routing table  
to use the same mechanism.

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Robert Hailey