[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connection problem (PR#358)

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Now how should we solve this problem (the send buffer gets filled
> and the client doesn't reply fast enough)?
> 
> 1) increase the buffer dynamically forever? (vulnerable to DoS
> attacks)

Well, I'm convinced I could come up with about 100.000 ways to DoS a
freeciv server. So this isn't really an arugment.

> 2) just discard those packets (it's what we are doing now)
> 3) close the client connection and clean up the buffer?
> 
> I'm in favour of 3.  Any objections? :)

One could also increase the static buffer for now and see if the
problem goes away.

        Falk