Re: [Bitcoin-development] "network disruption as a service" and proof of local storage

2015-03-27 Thread Robert McKay
ipant have its own copy. > > > On Friday, 27 March 2015, at 2:32 pm, Robert McKay wrote: >> Basically the problem with that is that someone could setup a single >> full node that has the blockchain and can answer those challenges >> and >> then a bunch of othe

Re: [Bitcoin-development] "network disruption as a service" and proof of local storage

2015-03-27 Thread Robert McKay
Basically the problem with that is that someone could setup a single full node that has the blockchain and can answer those challenges and then a bunch of other non-full nodes that just proxy any such challenges to the single full node. Rob On 2015-03-26 23:04, Matt Whitlock wrote: > Maybe I'm

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic

2014-07-28 Thread Robert McKay
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:28:15 -0400, Peter Todd wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > I've got a bitcoin-only exit running myself and right now there is > absolutely no traffic leaving it. If the traffic coming from that > node > was legit I'd expect some to be exiting my n

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic

2014-07-27 Thread Robert McKay
Here's a packet dump of a connected client: http://wari.mckay.com/~rm/unknown.tcpdump Doesn't seem particularly abusive.. only one connection, not doing much traffic. I don't have any easy way to deserialize this and see if it's doing anything unusual but it's there if someone wants to have a g

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
e wrote: >> I don't think it would be too hard to add support for a option to >> the >> seeder "for non-matching requests, forward to other DNS server at >> IP:PORT", so you could cascade them. >> >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Robert McKay

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
e giving different authority sections. > > Hmm, but if I setup custom SOA record for it - it should work, > right?  > What SOA name should it be actually, assuming that NS record for > testnet-seed.alexykot.me [12] is pointing at alexykot.me [13]? > > Best regards,  > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
Hi Alex, I think the problem is with my suggestion to use bind forwarding.. basically bind is stripping off the authorative answer bit in the reply.. this causes the recursor to go into a loop chasing the authority server which again returns a non-authoritve answer with itself as the authority

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
On Tue, 20 May 2014 01:44:29 +0100, Robert McKay wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:49:52 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Robert McKay >> wrote: >>> It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this >>> can >>>

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:49:52 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Robert McKay > wrote: >> It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this >> can >> be done in a zone context.. then you can forward the different zones >> t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this can be done in a zone context.. then you can forward the different zones to different dnsseed daemons running on different non-public IPs or two different ports on the same IP (or on one single non-public IP since there's really

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor / SPV

2014-01-15 Thread Robert McKay
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:51:21 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > The goal of all that is that we get to keep our existing IPv4 based > anti-sybil heuristics, so we can’t possibly make anything worse, > only better. Plus, we’ve now set things up so in future if/when we > come up with a better anti-sybil syst

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2013-12-08 Thread Robert McKay
On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 13:14:44 -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Drak wrote: >> Simple verification relies on being able to answer the email sent to >> the >> person in the whois records, or standard admin/webmaster@ addresses >> to prove >> ownership of the domain > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] A mining pool at 46%

2013-04-05 Thread Robert McKay
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:48:51 +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > However, youre somewhat right in the sense that its a self-defeating > attack. If the pool owner went bad, he could pull it off once, but > the > act of doing so would leave a permanent record and many of the people > mining on his pool would

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Punishing empty blocks?

2012-05-24 Thread Robert McKay
On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:33:12 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > There appears to be some non-trivial mining power devoted to mining > empty blocks. Even with satoshi's key observation -- hash a fixed > 80-byte header, not the entire block -- some miners still find it > easier to mine empty blocks, rather