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

From: Douglas Huff <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:41:06 -0500

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.