Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Scale up addrman
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 6 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
  • Loading branch information
sipa committed Mar 24, 2015
1 parent c6a63ce commit 1d21ba2
Showing 1 changed file with 10 additions and 10 deletions.
20 changes: 10 additions & 10 deletions src/addrman.h
Expand Up @@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ class CAddrInfo : public CAddress
*
* To that end:
* * Addresses are organized into buckets.
* * Address that have not yet been tried go into 256 "new" buckets.
* * Based on the address range (/16 for IPv4) of source of the information, 32 buckets are selected at random
* * Address that have not yet been tried go into 1024 "new" buckets.
* * Based on the address range (/16 for IPv4) of source of the information, 64 buckets are selected at random
* * The actual bucket is chosen from one of these, based on the range the address itself is located.
* * One single address can occur in up to 4 different buckets, to increase selection chances for addresses that
* * One single address can occur in up to 8 different buckets, to increase selection chances for addresses that
* are seen frequently. The chance for increasing this multiplicity decreases exponentially.
* * When adding a new address to a full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less recently seen
* ones) is removed from it first.
* * Addresses of nodes that are known to be accessible go into 64 "tried" buckets.
* * Each address range selects at random 4 of these buckets.
* * Addresses of nodes that are known to be accessible go into 256 "tried" buckets.
* * Each address range selects at random 8 of these buckets.
* * The actual bucket is chosen from one of these, based on the full address.
* * When adding a new good address to a full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less recently
* tried ones) is evicted from it, back to the "new" buckets.
Expand All @@ -128,22 +128,22 @@ class CAddrInfo : public CAddress
*/

//! total number of buckets for tried addresses
#define ADDRMAN_TRIED_BUCKET_COUNT 64
#define ADDRMAN_TRIED_BUCKET_COUNT 256

//! total number of buckets for new addresses
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKET_COUNT 256
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKET_COUNT 1024

//! maximum allowed number of entries in buckets for new and tried addresses
#define ADDRMAN_BUCKET_SIZE 64

//! over how many buckets entries with tried addresses from a single group (/16 for IPv4) are spread
#define ADDRMAN_TRIED_BUCKETS_PER_GROUP 4
#define ADDRMAN_TRIED_BUCKETS_PER_GROUP 8

//! over how many buckets entries with new addresses originating from a single group are spread
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKETS_PER_SOURCE_GROUP 32
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKETS_PER_SOURCE_GROUP 64

//! in how many buckets for entries with new addresses a single address may occur
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKETS_PER_ADDRESS 4
#define ADDRMAN_NEW_BUCKETS_PER_ADDRESS 8

//! how old addresses can maximally be
#define ADDRMAN_HORIZON_DAYS 30
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 1d21ba2

Please sign in to comment.