Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request review: drop misbehaving peers

From: Douglas Huff <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:36:20 -0500

On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:

>> On Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM, "Gavin Andresen" <[email-masked]> 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.
> 
> Have you submitted a patch to fix it?

No, it requires the entirety of the p2p network code be reworked and large patches aren't accepted.

No reason to take that off list, it's an issue that's been acknowledged on irc numerous times and is in the public channel logs.

-- 
Douglas Huff