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Re: Improving Robustness of Distributed Services (Re: DDoS attacks)
- From: Joshua Goodall
- Date: Sun Jul 15 04:36:28 2001
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Dickson, Brian wrote:
> - What is IRC, or for that matter net-news, at its heart? A transient,
> store-and-forward, one-to-many message system.
>
> In otherwords, multicast re-implemented on unicast, in some cases poorly and
> at great cost (news).
AFAIK, there is no implemented multicasting protocol - routing and reliable
transport - that can scale to the number of groups, senders and receivers
visible in current IRC networks. Source-based trees would require the
order of 1E6 (S,G) pairs and core/RP-based routing would be an even easier
target for the SK's than IRC already is.
Achieving instant group messaging on a global scale with convential multicast
is unlikely. Relevant academic research continues.
J
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