[gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable

[Kim Holviala]

Gophernicus has throttling by source IP.

gopher://gophernicus.org/1/software/gophernicus/server/

Manual says these options are available:
    -i hits       Maximum hits until throttling      [4096]
    -k kbytes     Maximum transfer until throttling  [4194304]


- Kim



On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:31, dave at 661.org wrote:

> 
> I figure there hasn't been much call for throttling functionality for gopher daemons.  Today it would have been much appreciated.  Could I convince someone to add a throttle to pygopherd?  I lack the savvy with Python to do it myself.  And now, here's why I bring this up.
> 
> Over a three day period spanning June 16, 17, and 18 of 2013 (UTC), someone attempted and probably suceeded in downloading the entirety of the Interactive Fiction Archive from gopher.feedle.net.  This caused a massive spike in outbound network traffic that has probably cost some money.  I'm not sure yet how much.  We have the logs and are looking into tracking down who did it.  I'll probably post snippets of the logs later.
> 
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> David Griffith
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