Use-cases for PerSourceMaxStartups and PerSourceNetBlockSize
Lars Noodén
lars.nooden at gmx.com
Mon Mar 22 01:31:58 AEDT 2021
On 3/19/21 5:25 PM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2021-03-19 at 13:06 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
>> I notice PerSourceMaxStartups and PerSourceNetBlockSize in 8.5
>> supplementing MaxStartups. What kind of use-cases were in mind for
>> PerSourceMaxStartups and PerSourceNetBlockSize? I've only seen
>> distributed attacks in recent years so they must have some other
>> intention.
[snip]
> "The office with all the developers behind a /29, all opening SSH
> connections to a git server? Give that /29 MUCH higher limits. The
> rest of the world? Not so much."
Thanks.
/Lars
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