[Bitcoin-development] Outbound connections rotation

2014-08-18 Thread Ivan Pustogarov
Hi there, I'd like to start a discussion on periodic rotation of outbound connections. E.g. every 2-10 minutes an outbound connections is dropped and replaced by a new one. Motivation: Each bitcoin non-UPnP client behind NAT has 8 outbound connections which change only rarely (due to occasional

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Outbound connections rotation

2014-08-18 Thread Ivan Pustogarov
connections only. As the result, when a NAT client connects to the network and advertises its address, the addresses will propagate to the attacker's connections only. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:43:44PM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Ivan Pustogarov ivan.pustoga