Repeating the Web's Mistakes (was gemini+submit:// (was Re: Uploading Gemini content))

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great defdefred once stated:
> On Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:22 AM, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
> > [3] http://boston.conman.org/2019/07/09-12
> > http://boston.conman.org/2019/08/06.2
> 
> Should we deduce that a significative part of the internet traffic is fake request?
> That a shame concidering the environmental impact of the digital world.
> Maybe blocking all this non-human request is the solution?

  Okay, how does one detect fake requests vs. legitimate requests?  Way back
in 2006 when I was paid to do this type of work, I set up a tarpit [1] with
the idea of maybe using the information gathered from it to block unwanted
tarffic.  Unfortunately, had I set this up, we still would *receive* the
packets.  To really have the effect you want, you need to block it *at the
source* and to do that would require cooperation with literally *hundreds*
(if not a few thousand) other network operators.

  My blog entry for January 26, 2006 [2] I noted having seen 107,287
connection attempts over a 24-hour period.  I didn't record the number of
unique IPs (which could give an indication of the number of networks
involved) but that's still over one "reported incident" per second.

  After awhile, it just beomces background noise you learn to ignore.

  -spc

[1]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29

[2]	http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/26.3