Headers-first synchronization

Many changes:
* Do not use 'getblocks', but 'getheaders', and use it to build a headers tree.
* Blocks are fetched in parallel from all available outbound peers, using a
  limited moving window. When one peer stalls the movement of the window, it is
  disconnected.
* No more orphan blocks. At all. We only ever request a block for which we have
  verified the headers, and store it to disk immediately. This means that a
  disk-fill attack would require PoW.
* Require protocol version 31800 for every peer (released in december 2010).
* No more syncnode (we sync from everyone we can, though limited to 1 during
  initial *headers* sync).
* Introduce some extra named constants, comments and asserts.
This commit is contained in:
Pieter Wuille
2014-07-12 00:02:35 +02:00
parent 992ab87114
commit 341735eb8f
9 changed files with 375 additions and 370 deletions

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@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ public:
int nStartingHeight;
uint64_t nSendBytes;
uint64_t nRecvBytes;
bool fSyncNode;
bool fWhitelisted;
double dPingTime;
double dPingWait;
@@ -276,10 +275,7 @@ protected:
public:
uint256 hashContinue;
CBlockIndex* pindexLastGetBlocksBegin;
uint256 hashLastGetBlocksEnd;
int nStartingHeight;
bool fStartSync;
// flood relay
std::vector<CAddress> vAddrToSend;