Limit the number of IPs we use from each DNS seeder

A risk exists where a malicious DNS seeder eclipses a node by returning an enormous number of IP addresses. In this commit we mitigate this risk by limiting the number of IP addresses addrman learns to 256 per DNS seeder.
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e0 2018-03-06 18:26:29 -05:00
parent b225010a80
commit 46e7f800bd
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -1631,7 +1631,8 @@ void CConnman::ThreadDNSAddressSeed()
if (!resolveSource.SetInternal(host)) {
continue;
}
if (LookupHost(host.c_str(), vIPs, 0, true))
unsigned int nMaxIPs = 256; // Limits number of IPs learned from a DNS seed
if (LookupHost(host.c_str(), vIPs, nMaxIPs, true))
{
for (const CNetAddr& ip : vIPs)
{