Re: Re: Why competing Gnutella clients help LimeWire

On May 8, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Bill Pringlemeir wrote:

> A malicious node
> can have long up time.

I'd rephrase it. We force them to have a high uptime.

> One attack stated is to have a lot of long
> uptime nodes disappear at the same time.  The hope is to fragment the
> network.

They'd have to spawn a gigantic number of Nodes to accomplish this.  
The bigger your presence in the DHT is the more traffic you must  
handle. If you can't handle the traffic you'll be declared as dead  
and replaced by an another Node.

  Roger