📅 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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Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 02:26:36
in reply to nevent1q…mksf
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2023-06-07 02:26:36Event JSON
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