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Loads of fake peers advertised on bitcoin network
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piotr_n
on 12/07/2021, 10:32:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (6) ,DdmrDdmr (5) ,0xB10C (5) ,NotATether (4) ,Coding Enthusiast (4) ,o_e_l_e_o (4) ,vapourminer (3) ,DaveF (2) ,HeRetiK (1)
It seems like there is some sort of attack going on - the network is advertising hundreds of thousands of non-working addresses via the addr messages.
All my nodes' peers databases are now over 700k records and seem to be still growing...

Do you see the same at your nodes?

Does bitcoin core have a limit of peers upon witch it won't accept new addresses into the database?
How to best handle that?