From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 12: 0:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD4215376 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA72232; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:00:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Jamie Norwood Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of mbuf clusters References: <000501bf030a$ac70e7a0$fa58dfc8@bahianet.com.br> <006301bf0384$0c30e2c0$0400a8c0@bahianet.com.br> <19990920104804.A41115@mushhaven.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Sep 1999 21:00:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jamie Norwood's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:48:04 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Norwood writes: > Actually, I have to agree with Joao here. Advice is good, but when it > takes on such a condescending tone that borders on insulting the asker > for their presumption to run an IRC server, it isn't very useful. We're not talking "presumption to run an IRC server", we're talking "presumption to run an IRC server while clearly lacking the experience necessary to do so". You can set up a {web,ftp,mail} server, or whatever, and expect to come under attack maybe a few times per year (or per month if the contents you carry are high-profile). By contrast, IRC servers come under attack (mostly DoS, but sometimes also penetration attempts) multiple times every week (every day on EFNet). Are you ready to face three days of continuous UDP flood at a sustained rate of 10 Mbps while serving 500+ clients? Been there, done that, though people usually don't believe me when I tell them about it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message