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Changes regarding misbehaving peers
Peers that misbehave (e.g. send us invalid blocks) are now referred to as discouraged nodes in log output, as they're not (and weren't) strictly banned: incoming connections are still allowed from them, but they're preferred for eviction.
Furthermore, a few additional changes are introduced to how discouraged addresses are treated:
-
Discouraging an address does not time out automatically after 24 hours (or the
-bantime
setting). Depending on traffic from other peers, discouragement may time out at an indeterminate time. -
Discouragement is not persisted over restarts.
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There is no method to list discouraged addresses. They are not returned by the
listbanned
RPC. That RPC also no longer reports theban_reason
field, as"manually added"
is the only remaining option. -
Discouragement cannot be removed with the
setban remove
RPC command. If you need to remove a discouragement, you can remove all discouragements by stop-starting your node.