(RADIATOR) Duplicate kinda requests

[Hugh Irvine]

Good idea!

thanks

Hugh


On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 09:36 Australia/Melbourne, 
jlewis at lewis.org wrote:

> 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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