Always use a 50% chance to choose between tried and new entries

This change was suggested as Countermeasure 2 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.
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Pieter Wuille
2015-03-19 09:51:59 -07:00
parent f68ba3f67b
commit c6a63ceeb4
3 changed files with 7 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -1221,8 +1221,7 @@ void ThreadOpenConnections()
int nTries = 0;
while (true)
{
// use an nUnkBias between 10 (no outgoing connections) and 90 (8 outgoing connections)
CAddress addr = addrman.Select(10 + min(nOutbound,8)*10);
CAddress addr = addrman.Select();
// if we selected an invalid address, restart
if (!addr.IsValid() || setConnected.count(addr.GetGroup()) || IsLocal(addr))