Interesting!
Thanks Kevin, I now need to research this and include such protections in my
node.
Also (I am fuzzy on the details for this), Bitcoind will detect when a node is
misbehaving and (I believe) it will blacklist misbehaving nodes for a period of
time so it doesn't continually keep trying to connect to tarpit nodes, for
example.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Kevin Greene <kgree...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bitcoind protects against this by storing the addresses it has learned about in
buckets. The bucket an address is stored in is chosen based on the IP of the
peer that advertised the addr message, and the address in the addr message
itself. The idea is that the bucketing is done in a randomized way so that no
attacker should be able to fill your database with his or her own nodes.
>From addrman.h:
/** Stochastic address manager * * Design goals: * * Keep the address tables
in-memory, and asynchronously dump the entire to able in peers.dat. * * Make
sure no (localized) attacker can fill the entire table with his
nodes/addresses. * * To that end: * * Addresses are organized into buckets. *
* Address that have not yet been tried go into 256 "new" buckets. * *
Based on the address range (/16 for IPv4) of source of the information, 32
buckets are selected at random * * The actual bucket is chosen from one of
these, based on the range the address itself is located. * * One single
address can occur in up to 4 different buckets, to increase selection chances
for addresses that * are seen frequently. The chance for increasing this
multiplicity decreases exponentially. * * When adding a new address to a
full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less recently seen *
ones) is removed from it first. * * Addresses of nodes that are known
to be accessible go into 64 "tried" buckets. * * Each address range
selects at random 4 of these buckets. * * The actual bucket is chosen from
one of these, based on the full address. * * When adding a new good
address to a full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less
recently * tried ones) is evicted from it, back to the "new" buckets. *
* Bucket selection is based on cryptographic hashing, using a
randomly-generated 256-bit key, which should not * be observable by
adversaries. * * Several indexes are kept for high performance. Defining
DEBUG_ADDRMAN will introduce frequent (and expensive) * consistency checks
for the entire data structure. */
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Thy Shizzle <thashizn...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Hi, so just a thought as my node relays addresses etc. If I wanted to really
slow down communication over the P2P network, what's stopping me from popping
up a heap of dummy nodes that do nothing more than exchange version and relay
addresses, except I send addr messages with all 1000 addresses pointing to my
useless nodes that never send invs or respond to getdata etc so clients connect
to my dumb nodes instead of legit ones. I'm thinking that if I fill up their
address pool with enough addresses to dumb nodes and keep them really fresh
time wise, it could have a bit of an impact especially if all 8 outbound
connections are used up by my dumb nodes right?
I don't want to do this obviously, I'm just thinking about it as I'm building
my node, what is there to stop this happening?
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