Automate blocking of users that go over the network limit
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feature: connection-limiting
meta: never-stale
team: workspace
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
Users that abuse Gitpod by running DDoS attacks or scanners should be banned automatically.
Describe the behaviour you'd like
We already drop traffic if too many connections are openend. Agent-smith should check the number of dropped connection attempts and block the user if the number goes over a certain threshold.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Continue doing it manually
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating Agent-smith's existing handling for dropped connection attempts and read how connection limits are enforced. Define the threshold and user-blocking behavior with the maintainers, then verify that excessive dropped attempts trigger an automatic block without disrupting normal traffic.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100