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|    Alexey Fayans to Paul Hayton    |
|    Rejecting an incoming connection    |
|    20 May 21 12:14:55    |
      MSGID: 2:5030/1997@fidonet 60a62a61       REPLY: 3:770/100 2a9887ba       CHRS: CP850 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 43272       Hello Paul!              On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 19:59 +1200, you wrote to All:               PH> Also of note, setting such a block up is not my preferred choice but I        PH> have exhausted options to contact the unknown sysop and want to ensure        PH> the test AKA is available for others to send/recieve packets from        PH> also... with a polling frequency of 2 mins the offending system gives        PH> no one else a look in.              If your system can suffer from DoS because of a single person making single       connection once in 2 minutes, imagine what happens, if someone will poll your       system from a small botnet (like 100 servers) via random proxies making 10-100       connections per second each. Just for fun.              By the way, binkd can handle multiple connections simultaneously, so I can't       really imagine how a single node can cause DoS by polling your system every 2       minutes.                     ... Music Station BBS | https://bbs.bsrealm.net | telnet://bbs.bsrealm.net       --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Music Station | https://ms.bsrealm.net (2:5030/1997)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 30/0 50/109 80/1 90/1 105/81 114/709 120/340 123/131       SEEN-BY: 129/305 154/10 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/101 200 424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/550 664 700 720 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/109 206 307       SEEN-BY: 249/317 261/38 280/464 5555 282/1038 292/854 301/0 1 101       SEEN-BY: 301/103 113 123 812 322/757 341/66 342/200 451/30 452/166       SEEN-BY: 463/68 467/888 469/122 633/280 712/848 5000/111 5001/100       SEEN-BY: 5005/49 5015/255 5019/42 5020/329 715 806 828 846 848 921       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 2047 2140 4441 9696 12000 5022/128 5023/12 24 5030/1081       SEEN-BY: 5030/1900 1997 5034/13 5053/54 57 5057/19 5058/0 104 5060/900       SEEN-BY: 5064/56 5075/128 5080/68 5083/444       PATH: 5030/1997 5023/24 5020/715 4441 1042 301/1 229/426           |
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