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Re:Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized To... by mgdigital on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:57PM (#39422506)
Bitmagnet has rate limiting on incoming UDP requests (both overall and per-IP) so I don't know that it would be vulnerable; if there's anything else that should be done to mitigate any risk I'd like to know.
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Re:Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized To... by pluto_modadic on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:03PM (#39422559)
outgoing rate limits, and also it could exhaust the overall rate with useless traffic.
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Re:Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized To... by mgdigital on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:06PM (#39422584)
Incoming and outgoing are both limited, I think the worst such an attack could do is prevent responding to legitimate incoming queries - this shouldn't slow down the DHT crawler in a noticeable way.
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Re:Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized To... by jesprenj on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:39PM (#39423666)
I do not mean bitmagnet here, I mean other bittorrent clients that respond to sample_infohashes.
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