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.