I want us to solve these problems while we're small in a controlled way before someone tries to do it for real.
We need relays to be hard enough to withstand a real attack not just my laptop running a script
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The only way to prevent the spam is to charge sats. It's a waste of time rate limiting IPs, anyone serious would use a botnet and be indistinguishable from normal traffic. I think the relay can handle it, but I'd ask that you exclude me from your test please.
I think this is really important to do.
Relays are the actual backbone to this and we need resilient ones.