p2p: Diversify connections only w.r.t *persistent* outbound peers

ADDR_FETCH and FEELER are short-lived connections,
and they should not affect our choice of peers.

Also, improve comments.
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Gleb Naumenko 2021-09-14 14:54:40 +03:00 committed by stratospher
parent 8c4958bd4c
commit 3faae99c3d

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@ -1721,19 +1721,22 @@ void CConnman::ThreadOpenConnections(const std::vector<std::string> connect)
if (pnode->IsFullOutboundConn()) nOutboundFullRelay++;
if (pnode->IsBlockOnlyConn()) nOutboundBlockRelay++;
// Netgroups for inbound and manual peers are not excluded because our goal here
// is to not use multiple of our limited outbound slots on a single netgroup
// but inbound and manual peers do not use our outbound slots. Inbound peers
// also have the added issue that they could be attacker controlled and used
// to prevent us from connecting to particular hosts if we used them here.
// Make sure our persistent outbound slots belong to different netgroups.
switch (pnode->m_conn_type) {
// We currently don't take inbound connections into account. Since they are
// free to make, an attacker could make them to prevent us from connecting to
// certain peers.
case ConnectionType::INBOUND:
// Manually selected connections should not affect how we select outbound
// peers from addrman.
case ConnectionType::MANUAL:
// Short-lived outbound connections should not affect how we select outbound
// peers from addrman.
case ConnectionType::ADDR_FETCH:
case ConnectionType::FEELER:
break;
case ConnectionType::OUTBOUND_FULL_RELAY:
case ConnectionType::BLOCK_RELAY:
case ConnectionType::ADDR_FETCH:
case ConnectionType::FEELER:
setConnected.insert(m_netgroupman.GetGroup(pnode->addr));
} // no default case, so the compiler can warn about missing cases
}