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authorPieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>2015-04-08 11:20:00 -0700
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2015-12-14 13:43:53 +0100
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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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