Perhaps the ban time should be made a bit shorter. Is 24 hours necessary? Not only is it harsh but it is prevent us from getting in sync and getting on the correct fork. I think even an hour is sufficient. If a wallet reconnects and is still forked, it will just get banned again right?
What is required to change the ban time?
node operator could start with -bantime=
that would be one option... but it actually might turn out to be pretty simple to reconnect.
so, if you happen to find yourself banned after your wallet got a hickup
while staking (check for the disconnect thing as pointed out on the recent posts, see log excerpts and compare with your own logs), you might try the following:
- do a rollback to a point when the blockchain was ok, to first and foremost
remove the cause of further dropped connections.
- start the client and perform a
repairwallet, so your wallet doesn't reflect the mismatch it renders because it's last known bockchain was in the process of staking when it went bad.
- again restart the client, your ballance should show the correct value before it went away and the rolled back blockchain should start updating, as the node is accepting you again.
(I also changed the 'port' option to some other value some steps earlier without success, but I left it changed afterwards, so I cannot be sure by a 100% that it has no effect... it might be one option to try
additionally, the blockchain rollback
plus repairwallet however are the most important steps.)
so, it's certainly not just the ip that is used to check if the client has or has not been banned
I think it should be stressed that the 'repairwallet' step really is important... especially if you want to perform a transaction... I had some unspendable marked coins, that were tumbling in the twilight zone of the transaction cache, available yet unspendable, schroedingers coins if you will xD
...and as we are at it... wallet backups turn out to be very important, too
