Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?
Dan Hollis
goemon at anime.net
Thu Sep 25 20:31:14 UTC 2003
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Jay Kline wrote:
> How about publishing a list of servers, but use the PGP web of trust model to
> allow updating of each other? That way there is no centralized source. If a
> group of admins dont like the updates coming from a server, dont trust it any
> longer. If you make this more like a social network, you dont have to have a
> central authority.
exactly. to be immune from ddos you MUST remove any centralized source.
> The trick then will be to have as many different participants as possible,
> and to have each participant share who it thinks the other participants are
> (or explicitly are not). Then if you take out one node, the others are not
> prevented from functioning.
the problem is that automated crawlers could amass a list of nodes to
attack. i shy away from automated discovery.
-Dan
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