<Mitchell PKT> test

passed

<Mitchell PKT> Ah good, bridge at discord.noncesense.org works again

<Mitchell PKT> h/t @n3ptune

We have had a fairly large number of asshole peers on the network for quite a while enow. I suspect they're spies.

They all point to each other in their peer lists

A good research subject would be... how to ensure that a node selects peers to connect that mostly avoids those.

Actually... simpler: assign a "asshole score" to any peer, which can then be used to inform other decisions.

It's been a while since I looked, but IIRC their peer lists aren't 100% identical, just mostly.

So some kind of distance metric between peers which looks at their peer lists (knowing that we only receive partial peer lists) might work.

That can only be calcualted once we've connected thouhg.

Other ideas welcome.

Isthmus: quantum

AFAIK they also mirror your own block height.

Is the main problem they drop transactions during stem?

The main problem is probably they spy on us.

The proximate problem is some people get stuck with only those and can't sync.

IIRC they used to relay txes (or blocks ? this was a log time ago).

Funny that. A log time ago puts even more more emphasis than a long time ago...

what is the relation of them being densely connected among themselves and spying?

i.e. what practical advantage wrt. spying would these colluding spies gain by connecting to each other through monero's p2p layer?