Re: [Bitcoin-development] network disruption as a service and proof of local storage

2015-03-27 Thread Robert McKay
Basically the problem with that is that someone could setup a single full node that has the blockchain and can answer those challenges and then a bunch of other non-full nodes that just proxy any such challenges to the single full node. Rob On 2015-03-26 23:04, Matt Whitlock wrote: Maybe I'm

Re: [Bitcoin-development] network disruption as a service and proof of local storage

2015-03-27 Thread Robert McKay
pm, Robert McKay wrote: Basically the problem with that is that someone could setup a single full node that has the blockchain and can answer those challenges and then a bunch of other non-full nodes that just proxy any such challenges to the single full node. Rob On 2015-03-26 23:04

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic

2014-07-28 Thread Robert McKay
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:28:15 -0400, Peter Todd wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've got a bitcoin-only exit running myself and right now there is absolutely no traffic leaving it. If the traffic coming from that node was legit I'd expect some to be exiting my node

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic

2014-07-27 Thread Robert McKay
Here's a packet dump of a connected client: http://wari.mckay.com/~rm/unknown.tcpdump Doesn't seem particularly abusive.. only one connection, not doing much traffic. I don't have any easy way to deserialize this and see if it's doing anything unusual but it's there if someone wants to have a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
Hi Alex, I think the problem is with my suggestion to use bind forwarding.. basically bind is stripping off the authorative answer bit in the reply.. this causes the recursor to go into a loop chasing the authority server which again returns a non-authoritve answer with itself as the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
custom SOA record for it - it should work, right?  What SOA name should it be actually, assuming that NS record for testnet-seed.alexykot.me [12] is pointing at alexykot.me [13]? Best regards,  Alex Kotenko 2014-05-30 14:41 GMT+01:00 Robert McKay : Hi Alex, I think the problem is with my

Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again

2014-05-30 Thread Robert McKay
to the seeder for non-matching requests, forward to other DNS server at IP:PORT, so you could cascade them. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Robert McKay rob...@mckay.com wrote: No, I don't think so. The problem is the 'aa' flag is missing (see the 'flags' section in dig). Perhaps if you could

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this can be done in a zone context.. then you can forward the different zones to different dnsseed daemons running on different non-public IPs or two different ports on the same IP (or on one single non-public IP since there's really

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:49:52 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Robert McKay rob...@mckay.com wrote: It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this can be done in a zone context.. then you can forward the different zones to different dnsseed

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-19 Thread Robert McKay
On Tue, 20 May 2014 01:44:29 +0100, Robert McKay wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:49:52 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Robert McKay rob...@mckay.com wrote: It should be possible to configure bind as a DNS forwarder.. this can be done in a zone context.. then you can

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor / SPV

2014-01-15 Thread Robert McKay
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:51:21 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: The goal of all that is that we get to keep our existing IPv4 based anti-sybil heuristics, so we can’t possibly make anything worse, only better. Plus, we’ve now set things up so in future if/when we come up with a better anti-sybil system

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2013-12-08 Thread Robert McKay
On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 13:14:44 -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Drak d...@zikula.org wrote: Simple verification relies on being able to answer the email sent to the person in the whois records, or standard admin/webmaster@ addresses to prove ownership of the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] A mining pool at 46%

2013-04-05 Thread Robert McKay
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:48:51 +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: However, youre somewhat right in the sense that its a self-defeating attack. If the pool owner went bad, he could pull it off once, but the act of doing so would leave a permanent record and many of the people mining on his pool would