[OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

[Tom Hughes]

On 08/03/15 04:28, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch
> <mailto:simon at poole.ch>> wrote:
>
>
>     Jon Burgess tracked the issue down to a way node being dragged from
>     Japan to Brazil on the 3rd of this month, creating a very very long way
>     that increased the rendering time for a large number of tiles at high
>     zoom levels.
>
>
> Wow. This constitutes an extremely simple way to mount a DoS attack on
> the OSM tileservers. I will have to assume that the Operations WG is
> already thinking of ideas on how to prevent this possibility in the future.

I think I can safely say we're not.

Of course if you have a brilliant idea how to do such a thing then I'm 
sure we'd love to hear it.

Tom

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