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From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de>
To: Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DOS-Attacks on bitcoin-client?
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:35:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5161A03E.2040802@olivere.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANg8-dC2FX-9QFE_Bq6djTiEsvvD+0Cc2Vy0Ofzk54DVrdVuxA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 07.04.2013 17:22, schrieb Scott Howard:
> Many new users have started using the reference client which downloads
> the whole blockchain from peers.

Yes I have made a clean start because of the the new database structure.

> There currently isn't a throttling
> mechanism [1] so it's possible to quickly eat up your bandwidth. You
> can try QoS on your router or use the -nolisten command line flag. You
> will still relay transactions, just not serve the whole blockchain.

I see. I successfully have downloaded the Blockchain again. Thus, it 
should not occur again now. If it does, I'll be back again. :-)

Thank you for your quick help.

regards
Oliver




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-07 14:43 [Bitcoin-development] DOS-Attacks on bitcoin-client? Oliver Egginger
2013-04-07 15:22 ` Scott Howard
2013-04-07 16:35   ` Oliver Egginger [this message]
2013-04-08  5:42 ` Jeff Garzik

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