From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request review: drop misbehaving peers
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:21:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2eY6RZxCy4=+U=4B2eNHbJz9AALfH5zQgKyQpTqptapQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T1_rOTd+sSgBTnj2iGKC2t7Rrh_pFAGtmWwjAKxaT0jdQ@mail.gmail.com>
> If I think you're trying to DoS me, why would I be nice to you?
The issue is, what if I'm not trying to DoS you, but something went wrong?
> think response messages would just give an attacker another potential
> attack vector, and it is clear from the debug.log what triggers a ban.
Only clear to the node owner. Not the sender, who may in a better
position to debug.
It's pretty common for protocols to return useful errors even in DoS
conditions. Eg, http servers will often return 503 Service Unavailable
in overload conditions. Google actually sends a redirect telling you
why you got blocked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-15 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 1:57 [Bitcoin-development] Request review: drop misbehaving peers Gavin Andresen
2011-09-15 2:06 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-15 10:43 ` Christian Decker
2011-09-15 12:56 ` kjj
2011-09-15 15:36 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-15 16:04 ` kjj
2011-09-15 16:41 ` solar
2011-09-15 17:29 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-15 16:19 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-15 17:41 ` Douglas Huff
[not found] ` <CABsx9T3HCVAn5ECuPWfAyZ4zt3WCbyKPF-7DV1HY2j2TKjavrg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-15 18:36 ` Douglas Huff
2011-09-15 19:07 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-15 11:45 ` Mike Hearn
2011-09-15 12:25 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-15 13:00 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-09-15 14:06 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-15 14:21 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-09-15 16:21 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2011-09-16 12:57 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
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