DC++ CTM Proof

In a previous post I was wondering if the whole concept of centralization is obsolete or has major flaws. The problem that is bothering everybody in the last years is that clients can be used ( unwillingly ) as tools in distributed denial of service attacks. Jan Vidar Krey is proposing a hub refferal on c-c connections that can point to a source of CTM attacks via the messages that the client sends on first connection attempt. In this case an attacked entity can see the hub with problems/intentional flooding that is causing the attacks. As a first step to prevent this kind of abuses in DC++, poy added a static IP protection for the major hublists that were attacked via the client. This kind of measure is just temporary since hublists can change IP anytime and it protects only them, not everybody else that can be attacked ( Also the fun part is that the hublist server is actually running a DC client and wants to download from other users, it can’t ! ) .  A second step was to dynamically resolve the hu ...