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| author | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2022-03-01 21:13:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2022-03-03 16:14:01 +0100 |
| commit | a1db99adea36dbee1ec97ca1851edad12137feea (patch) | |
| tree | b825cae08a58888b9f679b860a739821fc9e55b8 /doc/p2p-bad-ports.md | |
| parent | 30308cc380a8176a5ec0e0bd2beed8b9c482ccf7 (diff) | |
init, doc: improve -onlynet help and tor/i2p documentation
and harmonize them as follows
- s/outgoing/automatic outbound/
- s/Incoming/Inbound and manual/ (are not affected by this option.)
- s/only through network/only to network/
- s/this option. This option/this option. It/
- s/network types/networks/
and also pick up a few nits in doc/p2p-bad-ports.md
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/p2p-bad-ports.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/p2p-bad-ports.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md b/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md index 0dd7d36cf4..4f717f97a2 100644 --- a/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md +++ b/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections it chooses +When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections, it chooses a peer (address and port) from its list of potential peers. This list is -populated with unchecked data, gossiped over the P2P network by other peers. +populated with unchecked data gossiped over the P2P network by other peers. A malicious actor may gossip an address:port where no Bitcoin node is listening, or one where a service is listening that is not related to the Bitcoin network. @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ authentication are unlikely to be considered a malicious action, e.g. port 80 (http). Below is a list of "bad" ports which Bitcoin Core avoids when choosing a peer to -connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive less +connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive fewer incoming connections. 1: tcpmux |