[Dxspider-support] FYI: 4 new nodes added to ROS Auto-Spotting function.

[Brendan Minish]

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 08:39 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> It would be a fairly simple job to have some kind of averaging or pump 
> up timer that has the effect going into "cripple" mode if the last n 
> connections were less than m seconds long.

cripple mode is a good idea, I would also like to be able to see a list
of who has been in cripple mode and who is in there currently for my
cluster, preferably with ip information so that I have a way of Iding
users with issues to be able to help them out 

I presume that for regesterd users with passwords cripple mode would (or
could be) be bypassed 

> "Cripple" mode would something like pretending to be a nice cooperative 
> cluster that accepts spots, but does not send them on, and/or returns a 
> *very* limited view of data such as spots (maybe only two or three spots 
> else spots that are an hour or so old).

old spots might be good, perhaps 20 minutes old would be enough, the
more hits the older they get..  
No spotting allowed for users in cripple mode 

> If the user starts to behave like a real person and connects p times for 
> more than m seconds, it automatically comes out of "cripple" mode. While 
> in "cripple" mode for more than (say) 2*m+random amount seconds then 
> de-cripples that user for that session. This behaviour persists until 
> they have behaved for p sessions.

there should to be a way for the sysop to reset the counters 

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73
Brendan EI6IZ