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From: Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs.org>
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 12:41:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPiTikXTf=pDrYzfJkxrieEaMVCPGsgB-v-31J-woWjFopt5LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2kQTAA77Q=qYc2iKNftQSd8ficfhcXL2W6kX0JUhe3Dw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen@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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 17:41 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 [this message]
     [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
2011-09-16 12:57         ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen

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