Subj : rate limiting
To   : g00r00
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Mon Nov 08 2021 10:28 pm

A suggestion for echomail hub function.

Had a node that had a BOT malfunction that was sending out around multiple messages per minute to the FSX_BOT echo. All messages had different MSGID and were essentially different in body content.

It would be good if Mystic could detect the flooding of an echo by a node and if a threshold is reached stop the messages from continuing to be processed. Perhaps an auto delink from echo if x messages posted within x minutes plus a netmail alert sent to node + hub admin?

Dunno... but thought I'd pass this one along, not sure how other tossers handle such things. We ended up with 8570 messages posted before it was caught and manually delinked.

Best, Paul

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