Author: Douglas Huff 2011-09-15 17:41:06
Published on: 2011-09-15T17:41:06+00:00
On September 15, 2011, Gavin Andresen wrote a comment about ignoring bandwidth DoS attacks and relying on the -maxreceivebuffer option to handle them. However, someone disagreed with this approach, stating that it could lead to a memory exhaustion DoS attack and would not effectively prevent network flooding. The conversation was documented in an email thread, with the original message including the comments and the response being quoted.
Updated on: 2023-06-04T19:43:47.211916+00:00