detect misbehaving peers and ban them

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detect misbehaving peers and ban them #161

Open dooglus opened 9 years ago

dooglus commented 9 years ago

Issue #155 has some discussion of banning peers which repeatedly request the same block(s) as misbehaving, but that wasn't the main point of that issue.

dooglus commented 9 years ago

Creative wrote:

Was just thinking that this is sort of a self-inflicted DDoS attack in a way. That it might be helpful in the long-perspective to identify behavior from peers that negatively affects the network; regardless of version.