Re: Updated PFSP specifications

[email protected] Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:21:51 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnutella.devel
Organization Home, Grenoble, France
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
:Am Samstag 18 April 2009 21:21:49 schrieb [email protected]:
:> The sole motivation of this change is simply to save bandwidth when "bad"
:> clients request a highly fragmented file without honouring the Retry-After
:> indication given for that file.  Some clients will retry every minute even
:> though the Retry-After header states 20 minutes.
:
:Wouldn't it be better to simply ban these clients, then? 

If I did, I'd ban 95% of the clients, roughly speaking, 4 main vendors
(not counting the derivatives based on the same code but branded as another
vendor).

Raphael