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authorGregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>2016-12-11 20:26:06 +0000
committerGregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>2017-01-05 19:02:15 +0000
commit032ba3f0665432bd15ff76ee01cde245ad29e3e6 (patch)
tree40de7c5b7d216b82f3d6a7dea9cf59528c164d72
parent90f13e18228fde2e62de1c7d9b4b7e12a703bf03 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-032ba3f0665432bd15ff76ee01cde245ad29e3e6.tar.xz
RPC help documentation for addnode peerinfo.
Also adds a comment about the netgroup exclusion behavior.
-rw-r--r--src/net.cpp5
-rw-r--r--src/rpc/net.cpp1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/net.cpp b/src/net.cpp
index 6640cc0016..0f0a7bf8dc 100644
--- a/src/net.cpp
+++ b/src/net.cpp
@@ -1633,6 +1633,11 @@ void CConnman::ThreadOpenConnections()
LOCK(cs_vNodes);
BOOST_FOREACH(CNode* pnode, vNodes) {
if (!pnode->fInbound && !pnode->fAddnode) {
+ // Netgroups for inbound and addnode peers are not excluded because our goal here
+ // is to not use multiple of our limited outbound slots on a single netgroup
+ // but inbound and addnode peers do not use our outbound slots. Inbound peers
+ // also have the added issue that they're attacker controlled and could be used
+ // to prevent us from connecting to particular hosts if we used them here.
setConnected.insert(pnode->addr.GetGroup());
nOutbound++;
}
diff --git a/src/rpc/net.cpp b/src/rpc/net.cpp
index fe59579593..2af00c1de9 100644
--- a/src/rpc/net.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/net.cpp
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ UniValue getpeerinfo(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
" \"version\": v, (numeric) The peer version, such as 7001\n"
" \"subver\": \"/Satoshi:0.8.5/\", (string) The string version\n"
" \"inbound\": true|false, (boolean) Inbound (true) or Outbound (false)\n"
+ " \"addnode\": true|false, (boolean) Whether connection was due to addnode and is using an addnode slot\n"
" \"startingheight\": n, (numeric) The starting height (block) of the peer\n"
" \"banscore\": n, (numeric) The ban score\n"
" \"synced_headers\": n, (numeric) The last header we have in common with this peer\n"