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> In any case, the single-point-of-failure server is needed to process all the messages and give the go/no go instruction to the larger network. No, it is not
by Arathorn 1y ago
> In any case, the single-point-of-failure server is needed to process all the messages and give the go/no go instruction to the larger network.
No, it is not a SPOF. If the PS goes down, traffic keeps flowing as normal; it just doesn’t get spamchecked. They do not give a “go/no go instruction to the larger network”; they are something which servers can check against.
The difference in the distinction is that rooms can pick different PSes to moderate traffic, or choose only to turn them on if they’re under attack, or servers participating in a room can choose to use different ones according to taste, etc.
- AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago> No, it is not a SPOF. If the PS goes down, traffic keeps flowing as normal; it just doesn’t get spamchecked. They do not give a “go/no go instruction to the larger network”; they are something which servers can check against. That is still a failure (to spam check), even if it is not a failure to deliver the messages altogether. It may also end up being a vulnerability. For example, the attackers might do a some sort of flood attack on the policy server, and then get the abuse through.
- Arathorn 1y ago> That is still a failure (to spam check), even if it is not a failure to deliver the messages altogether Yes, but it is not a single point of failure. You can have multiple different policy servers per room, or additional antispam rules per server if you want.