Re: [gift-users] A few tips for those wishing to be a search node

[Alaa A. El F. <al...@az...>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:03:17 -0400
Greg Wooledge <gr...@wo...> wrote:

> 
> Getting all the users to update to 0.2.1.1 should help in this regard.
> However, if you offer services on the Internet, you're always going
> to face a certain amount of "abuse", so you should make sure you have
> some capacity to spare, or some countermeasures in place to handle
> sudden spikes, etc.

hey I'm fine with that, I got help from some of the local gurus, and I'm
learning about networking anyway.

but if you want more people to contribute it should be a bit easier.

maybe it would be better to have some docs with hints on how to cope
with these problems or even some firewall scripts for Linux and BSDs.

BTW I'm getting loads of new not syn packets in the firewall log any
should I worry about this??

cheers,
Alaa
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