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| From: | Tom Lord |
| Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:23:11 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Chris Gray <address@hidden>
> This is true. I see a couple of problems with that though. The first
> is that it relies on a smart server, whereas skiplists (or probably
> any static heuristic) don't need to. The second is the rather obvious
> DoS that would result.
For dumb-servers, the tentative plan is to allow an explicit
management command such as `tla archive-cache-delta' (similar to
`cacherev').
Regarding the DoS attack -- I don't see any obvious new risk here
unless you are imagining a poor smart-server implementation.
-t
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