Nostr Web Client

I built a little script that identifies public relays who don't have rate limiters on.

Found 28 of them so far.

I really recommend you guys use limiters and you'll find out why next weekend 👨‍💻🫡

Limiting by IP just limits people using vpns and other carriers that use nat.. (like the entirety of China, mobile carriers and anyone using cloudflare, blastr, tor exit nodes). The relay I run has been fine for quite a while without IP limits. I've avoided charging for the relay simply to give new nostriches a place to go and I am happy that so far there's not much abuse at all in it's global.

I don't even want to be logging IPs honestly.. maybe I'll just turn all that logging off and let it ride. 🔥

Spam that doesn't make any $$ dies on its own, unless it has a purpose. It sounds like your purpose is to kill off public relays, just not really sure why.

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

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

cloud fodder 2y ago

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.

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

Will do 🫡

cloud fodder 2y ago

Thank you 👨‍💻👩‍💻💻📡🛰️

Save Invest Repeat 2y ago

I think this is really important to do.

Relays are the actual backbone to this and we need resilient ones.