Topic: Banned Peers ? (Read 1821 times)
I only just noticed this morning that i can ban peers indefinitely or for a set time period, Under what circumstances would an average bitcoin user use this? or maybe i wouldn't is it an advanced feature?
Or maybe the blocks are too big. 
No.As far as I'm aware ,this was nothing to do with the blocks.The peer gets banned for misbehaving or spamming the network.The spam transactions are the best example .
This node showed up on my banned list:
Has a reverse DNS lookup:
Code:
188.40.93.205/32
Has a reverse DNS lookup:
Code:
nil.0x0000.de [188.40.93.205]
Or maybe the blocks are too big.
I just had a look at my list of Peers in Core and seen that there is 1 banned peer, what is that all about? never seen it before.
Bitcoin Core automatically bans peers that it sees are misbehaving. If a peer connected to it misbehaves, it disconnects it and blocks it from connecting for 24 hours.As for what misbehaving means, I'm not quite sure. I am fairly certain it has something to do with the number of transactions and blocks it is sending and whether those transactions and blocks are valid.
I just had a look at my list of Peers in Core and seen that there is 1 banned peer, what is that all about? never seen it before.
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