From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: kjj <bitcoin-devel@jerviss.org>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:39:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310271439.52983.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2dQT6Evgm0UwvSKdgVsSnb_VF6fovVo0n0eKDM5ARZpw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:32:57 PM Mike Hearn wrote:
> Currently bitcoinj gets a small but steady stream of bug reports of the form
> "my transaction did not propagate". It's flaky because the library picks one
> peer to send the transaction to, and then watches it propagate across the
> network. But if that selected peer refuses the tx for whatever reason, that
> propagation never comes, and there's currently no timeout to make it retry
> with a different node.
Sounds like the real bug is "BitcoinJ relies on good/servant behaviour from
other nodes". Don't assume your random node isn't hostile. Handling a peer
that doesn't relay your transaction for any reason (including if they lie to
you about having done so) should be expected behaviour.
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-27 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-26 0:34 [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message Gavin Andresen
2013-10-26 1:01 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-10-26 2:00 ` Gavin
2013-10-26 4:32 ` kjj
2013-10-27 14:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-27 14:39 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2013-10-27 14:50 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-30 17:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-31 12:01 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-27 22:52 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-28 2:52 ` kjj
2013-10-28 9:26 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-10-28 9:32 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-29 5:37 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-29 8:55 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-10-29 9:12 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 9:52 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-29 10:14 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 11:38 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-29 12:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-29 16:35 ` [Bitcoin-development] On soft-forks and hard-forks Peter Todd
2013-10-30 2:01 ` [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message Gavin Andresen
2013-10-30 8:24 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-30 9:05 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-10-30 10:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-28 2:59 ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-28 3:02 ` Pieter Wuille
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