The fact DoS-ing a server is even effective as a method of silencing anyone/anything is an indicator of the wrong design being used.

Server-centric design is almost always the wrong architecture to use for anything that is not strictly and invariably hierarchical (and even then, a *lot* of cases can do with message-centric and/or content-addressed distributed protocols).

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