From 675e55e01392971aa56bda56cb09498b466d0902 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:47:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore unknown messages before VERACK

---
 src/net_processing.cpp | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/net_processing.cpp b/src/net_processing.cpp
index adad428413..c89e48431a 100644
--- a/src/net_processing.cpp
+++ b/src/net_processing.cpp
@@ -2585,8 +2585,7 @@ void PeerLogicValidation::ProcessMessage(CNode& pfrom, const std::string& msg_ty
     }
 
     if (!pfrom.fSuccessfullyConnected) {
-        // Must have a verack message before anything else
-        Misbehaving(pfrom.GetId(), 1, "non-verack message before version handshake");
+        LogPrint(BCLog::NET, "Unsupported message \"%s\" prior to verack from peer=%d\n", SanitizeString(msg_type), pfrom.GetId());
         return;
     }