(RADIATOR) Duplicate kinda requests

[jlewis at lewis.org]

Why not let them authenticate, but give them an IP that won't get them 
anywhere but to one web page that says they've been disabled for billing 
reasons.

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Hugh Irvine wrote:

> 
> Hello Craig -
> 
> I understand the problem - unfortunately there is nothing Radiator can 
> do to rate-limit a mis-behaving client device.
> 
> Perhaps you could put a filter on one of your routers to drop the "bad" 
> requests?
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 01:02 Australia/Melbourne, Craig Gittens 
> wrote:
> 
> > I know Radiator isn't the problem. I just want a way to rate-limit the
> > amount of failed authentication attempts.
> >
> > e.g. If the user/pass fails twice in three seconds = ignore the user 
> > request
> > for another x seconds.
> >
> > Is this possible? If not would it be a good idea for a feature? You 
> > should
> > see my console it just scrolls by on trace 3 with one username failing 
> > 2-3
> > times a second.
> >
> > Craig.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au]On
> > Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
> > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:33 PM
> > To: Craig Gittens
> > Cc: Radiator
> > Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Duplicate kinda requests
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello Craig -
> >
> > The problem here is that Radiator is not the source of the problem.
> >
> > The correct answer would be to remove power from the ADSL modem.
> >
> > What do you want Radiator to do?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> > On Monday, Feb 17, 2003, at 05:07 Australia/Melbourne, Craig Gittens
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I have a problem with ADSL users we authenticate here. They pound the
> >> server
> >> right now with 2-3 requests every second if their account has expired.
> >>
> >> How would you handle this? They are not duplicate requests.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> Craig.
> >>
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