Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-09-15 🗒️ Summary of this message: A disagreement ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-09-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: A disagreement over the effectiveness of the -maxreceivebuffer option to deal with bandwidth DoS attacks in Bitcoin.
📝 Original message:On Sep 15, 2011 11:20 AM, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen at 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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