Re: distributed simultaniously connecting clones

[Helmut Springer <delta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Tue 13-Jan-1998 (16:39), Christophe Kalt wrote:
> right, but what did you expect?
nothing else

> clones did NOT exist before flood control was implemented,
> but their evolution followed very closely ircd's evolution.
take a look at the evolution in security, people will implement every
way to abuse if they are forced to or not.  see such long known
weaknesses as smurf uses it.

> SLOW_ACCEPT is already quite random, and slow; I don't want
it's random?  I though it just adds a fixed number of seconds, or
is the timing so inacurate it's nealry random?

regards
 delta

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