Subj : BBS Software Timeout Values
To   : Dennis Scott
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Apr 06 2023 05:01 pm

  Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
  By: Dennis Scott to Rob Swindell on Thu Apr 06 2023 03:37 pm

 >   Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Dennis Scott on Tue Apr 04 2023 09:56 am
 >
 >  > to very simple "denial of service" attacks by users either accidentally
 >  > or purposefully just "walking away from the keyboard" once connected and
 >  > tying up all their nodes.
 >
 > DOS attacks are a real threat but that really should be handled on the front
 > end of the BBS or at the firewall, I would hope anyhow.

I was referring to a different kind of DOS "attack". If the sysop wants to suppoort n-users connecting, authenticating, and then walking away from their keyboards, that sysop would need n-nodes on the BBS. Luckily a node is just another and some config files these days (not an additional phone line or computer), but still, it's a *finite* resource.

 > When are you coming out with your 100 node version Rob?

Current versions of Synchronet support up to 250 nodes. Realistically, nobody configures anywhere near that many nodes mainly because configuring door games to support dozens of nodes (for many multinode doors, anyway), is a big hassle. It's much easier to just enforce a maximum duration of user inactivity and keep the number of configured nodes to some a number you'd reasonably expect to need for *active* user connections.
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