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author | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2015-04-08 11:20:00 -0700 |
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committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2015-12-14 13:43:53 +0100 |
commit | 10b88be79856ee7ee66f69705c16b335941e396e (patch) | |
tree | 29766c79315ae9c569321e2ee607107be948dd5d /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
parent | 06c6a584635bb42c511baf505cebd7cdf77b89e9 (diff) |
Replace trickle nodes with per-node/message Poisson delays
We used to have a trickle node, a node which was chosen in each iteration of
the send loop that was privileged and allowed to send out queued up non-time
critical messages. Since the removal of the fixed sleeps in the network code,
this resulted in fast and attackable treatment of such broadcasts.
This pull request changes the 3 remaining trickle use cases by random delays:
* Local address broadcast (while also removing the the wiping of the seen filter)
* Address relay
* Inv relay (for transactions; blocks are always relayed immediately)
The code is based on older commits by Patrick Strateman.
Github-Pull: #7125
Rebased-From: 5400ef6bcb9d243b2b21697775aa6491115420f3
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