Mechanism for filtering suspicious peers

Question

Mechanism for filtering suspicious peers

DnorthR opened this issue 6 months ago · 2 comments

DnorthR commented 6 months ago

Is it possible to provide a mechanism for forced filtering (blacklist/whitelist?) for connected peers?

For example, the peers list currently includes a suspicious instance identifying itself as "GoObserver v4.1"

Answer 1 · 2024-07-06T10:30:35.000Z

That peer is p2pool.observer - it's legit.

Answer 2 · 2024-07-06T14:18:29.000Z

As for banning misbehaving peers - p2pool already does that, but bans are temporary (10 minutes). If you want to ban some IP permanently, it's better to use a firewall for this. Or to set up fail2ban to parse p2pool's log for specific messages.