Saturday, Saturday, August 11, 2001, 8:10:53 PM, Mark Jeftovic wrote:
> An important aspect of my suggestion was the penalty method where
> it costs you an interval of time when you attempt to snag a dropped
> domain and that interval doubles everytime you attempt it.
> If a registrar tried to issue 100,000 check commands they would find
> themselves having to wait about 2^10*5 seconds to get another socket.
> In other words, you make the hammering cost so much it becomes crippling
> to the registrar doing it, while putting in moderate requests like
> one per minute are easily absorbed and makes it a pretty random
> distribution.
It also creates a possible DoS situation.
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