doc: Update high-level addrman description

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Martin Zumsande 3 years ago
parent 4b1fb50def
commit 318176aff1

@ -104,19 +104,23 @@ public:
* * Make sure no (localized) attacker can fill the entire table with his nodes/addresses.
*
* To that end:
* * Addresses are organized into buckets.
* * Addresses that have not yet been tried go into 1024 "new" buckets.
* * Based on the address range (/16 for IPv4) of the source of information, 64 buckets are selected at random.
* * Addresses are organized into buckets that can each store up to 64 entries.
* * Addresses to which our node has not successfully connected go into 1024 "new" buckets.
* * Based on the address range (/16 for IPv4) of the source of information, or if an asmap is provided,
* the AS it belongs to (for IPv4/IPv6), 64 buckets are selected at random.
* * The actual bucket is chosen from one of these, based on the range in which the address itself is located.
* * The position in the bucket is chosen based on the full address.
* * One single address can occur in up to 8 different buckets to increase selection chances for addresses that
* are seen frequently. The chance for increasing this multiplicity decreases exponentially.
* * When adding a new address to a full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less recently seen
* ones) is removed from it first.
* * When adding a new address to an occupied position of a bucket, it will not replace the existing entry
* unless that address is also stored in another bucket or it doesn't meet one of several quality criteria
* (see IsTerrible for exact criteria).
* * Addresses of nodes that are known to be accessible go into 256 "tried" buckets.
* * Each address range selects at random 8 of these buckets.
* * The actual bucket is chosen from one of these, based on the full address.
* * When adding a new good address to a full bucket, a randomly chosen entry (with a bias favoring less recently
* tried ones) is evicted from it, back to the "new" buckets.
* * When adding a new good address to an occupied position of a bucket, a FEELER connection to the
* old address is attempted. The old entry is only replaced and moved back to the "new" buckets if this
* attempt was unsuccessful.
* * Bucket selection is based on cryptographic hashing, using a randomly-generated 256-bit key, which should not
* be observable by adversaries.
* * Several indexes are kept for high performance. Defining DEBUG_ADDRMAN will introduce frequent (and expensive)

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