[Bitcoin-development] Request review: drop misbehaving peers
Douglas Huff
dhuff at jrbobdobbs.org
Thu Sep 15 17:41:06 UTC 2011
On Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm ignoring bandwidth DoS attacks-- we already have the
> -maxreceivebuffer option to deal with those.
I disagree with this comment. The way this is currently implemented is a mem
exhaustion dos in itself waiting to happen and does nothing to prevent
network flooding.
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