Board:   [fsxNet] fsxNet Network Discussion
Subject: Re: Hub 3 rate limiting
From:    fusion(21:1/616)
Date:    Mon Mar 23, 2026 18:18

On 24 Mar 2026, deon said the following...

 de> Over the last week I've implemented rate limiting on clrghouz. I noticed
 de> recently quite a few polls coming from the same IP address every minute
 de> - some of them probably script kiddes, some of them BBSes that are on
 de> auto-pilot.

did you have any measurable degredation of service with the connection
frequency? or did it just bother you?

so many people in the bbs hobby freak out over a few meaningless connections

how large is the entire session in bytes? are you worrying about 100mb a
year? 500mb? starts to feel a bit silly..

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