- Ensures ports remain open and client are responsive to IX requests.
- Completely 100% decentralized. This farms out the work of checking the masternode network to the masternode network. 1% of the network is determistically selected to check another 1% of the network each block. It takes six separate checks to deactivate a node, thus making it tamper proof.
- Nodes are kept in the masternode list if they fail enough PoSe checks to deactivate. They will continue to be checked until the operator fixes them. However they will not be paid while they're failing checks.
When re-indexing, there are a few cases where garbage data may be skipped in
the block files. In these cases, the indices are correctly written to the index
db, however the pointer to the next position for writing in the current block
file is calculated by adding the sizes of the valid blocks found.
As a result, when the re-index is finished, the index db is correct for all
existing blocks, but the next block will be written to an incorrect offset,
likely overwriting existing blocks.
Rather than using the sum of all valid blocks to determine the next write
position, use the end of the last block written to the file. Don't assume that
the current block is the last one in the file, since they may be read
out-of-order.
Rebased-From: bb6acff079
Github-Pull: #5864
The only time when a client sends a "getaddr" message is when he
esatblishes an Outbound connection (see ProcessMessage() in
src/main.cpp). Another bitcoin client is expected to receive a
"getaddr" message only on Inbound connection. Ignoring "gettaddr"
requests on Outbound connections can resolve potential privacy issues
(and as was said such request normally do not happen anyway).
Rebased-From: dca799e1db
Github-Pull: #5442
With headers-first we can compare against the best header timestamp, rather
than using checkpoints which require code updates to maintain.
Rebased-From: 85da07a5a0
Github-Pull: #5820
- call ProcessMessageMasternodePayments on ProcessBlock (lost after moving mnodeman functionality)
- do not process extra functionality messages (DS, IX, spork) on initial download / reindex
Normally bitcoin core does not display any network originated strings without
sanitizing or hex encoding. This wasn't done for strcommand in many places.
This could be used to play havoc with a terminal displaying the logs,
especially with printtoconsole in use.
Thanks to Evil-Knievel for reporting this issue.
Conflicts:
src/main.cpp
Normally bitcoin core does not display any network originated strings without
sanitizing or hex encoding. This wasn't done for strcommand in many places.
This could be used to play havoc with a terminal displaying the logs,
especially with printtoconsole in use.
Thanks to Evil-Knievel for reporting this issue.
Conflicts:
src/main.cpp
src/net.cpp
src/rpcserver.cpp
Rebased-From: 28d4cff0ed
Github-Pull: #5770
- Scan IX locks on new blocks to make sure no conflicting txes are present
- Upon completion of a IX lock, check for conflicts and remove blocks if needed
This harmonizes the block fetch timeout with the existing ping timeout
and eliminates a guaranteed eventual failure from congestion collapse
for a network operating right at its limit.
It's unlikely that we wouldn't suffer other failures if we were really
anywhere near the network's limit, and a complete avoidance of congestion
collapse risk requires (I think) an exponential back-off. So this isn't
a major concern, but I think it's also useful for reducing the complexity
of understanding out timeouts.
Github-Pull: #5647
Rebased-From: 3ff735c99a
This will disconnect peers that do not transfer a block in 10 minutes, plus
5 minutes for every previously queued block with validated headers
(accomodating downstream bandwidth down to a few kilobytes per second - below
that the node would have trouble staying synchronized anyway).
Github-Pull: #5608
Rebased-From: 916130348c
Client crashes about every 24h on mainnet (with lots of masternodes)
and very rarely on testnet. AcceptableInputs has no need to check
HaveCoins as AcceptToMemoryPool does and would rarely cause the
segfault to occur.
With the splashscreen being able to be closed it is possible to
shutdown during the lengthy verifyDB method. (Takes about a minute
on my machine). This change allows us to shutdown much sooner.
Github-Pull: #5557
Rebased-From: 70477a0bdf
Don't allow immediate inv driven block downloads if
a peer already has MAX_BLOCKS_IN_TRANSIT_PER_PEER
active downloads. Prevents bogus inv spam from
blowing up block transfer tracking data structures.
Rebased-From: c90770430d
Github-Pull: #5507
Previously transactions were only tested again the
STANDARD_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS prior to mempool acceptance, so any bugs in
those flags that allowed actually-invalid transactions to pass would
result in allowing invalid transactions into the mempool. Fortunately
there is a second check in CreateNewBlock() that would prevent those
transactions from being mined, resulting in an invalid block, however
this could still be exploited as a DoS attack.
Rebased-From: 7c041b3b91
