Spam/DoS protection

[JustinDrake]

I am writing a DHT crawler for go-ipfs. At the moment it seems I can repeatedly hit the network and not get kickbanned. Is there spam/DoS protection where abusive IPs are automatically removed?

[whyrusleeping]

@JustinDrake currently no, we havent had issues with it yet so we havent put much effort into adressing that problem.

[JustinDrake]

Ok. As side note my crawlers indicate there are about 200 nodes on the network. Realistically OpenBazaar is going to have 2,000 online nodes at any time, pushing the envelope forward.

[jbenet]

@JustinDrake hundreds of nodes come online and go offline periodically. from some measurements, most nodes are not long-lived. the network ebbs around 200-500 long lived and, i've observed 1000-3000 unique peer.IDs per week on different weeks i've tried it.

But yes, 2K nodes with OB will be good-- though note OB will be in a separate independent network for a while.