BUGZZZZZ
I didn't do anything abnormal, using bcoin0.71
Started p2pool like I do normally, but then I saw that an invalid hash message poped up, and then the bug showed up.
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I think this caused the bug:
2012-11-16 13:14:45.342000 invalid hash for 99.162.89.78 'remember_tx' 248345 04cac86c 86dc28a6********(rest of hash omitted because.....the text was too long for forum "The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (64000 characters). "
And this forum has no way to attach text files.
I am not sure if the invalid hash LENGTH is what cased the bug, because it was over 64,000 characters in length+
So perhaps this is just a bug that is caused by a hash that was too long, overloading a buffer or related.
This might just be a bug caused by getting hashes from peers that are wayyyy too long?
(no idea how that would happen unless someone is malicious, or their pc flipped out/program crashed....)
I think it's due to a packet sent over the network getting corrupted somehow. Did P2Pool continue to work afterwards? It should have. If it didn't, this is a real bug ... but otherwise it's just a rare failure that was handled correctly.