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Update transport to allow a PING-only packet
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ianswett committed Oct 28, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1592,10 +1592,11 @@ server has successfully processed a Handshake packet from the client, it can
consider the client address to have been validated.

Prior to validating the client address, servers MUST NOT send more than three
times as many bytes as the number of bytes they have received. This limits the
magnitude of any amplification attack that can be mounted using spoofed source
addresses. In determining this limit, servers only count the size of
successfully processed packets.
times as many bytes as the number of bytes they have received, except upon the
probe timeout expiring, when servers can send a single PING-only packet.
This limits the magnitude of any amplification attack that can be mounted
using spoofed source addresses. In determining this limit, servers only count
the size of successfully processed packets.

Clients MUST ensure that UDP datagrams containing Initial packets have UDP
payloads of at least 1200 bytes, adding padding to packets in the datagram as
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