Commit Graph

7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Péter Szilágyi
2573094df2
p2p/discover, p2p/discv5: use flexible comparison for IPs 2016-12-14 18:40:49 +02:00
Felix Lange
a47341cf96 p2p, p2p/discover, p2p/discv5: add IP network restriction feature
The p2p packages can now be configured to restrict all communication to
a certain subset of IP networks. This feature is meant to be used for
private networks.
2016-11-22 22:21:18 +01:00
Felix Lange
a98d1d67d6 p2p/discover, p2p/discv5: prevent relay of invalid IPs and low ports
The discovery DHT contains a number of hosts with LAN and loopback IPs.
These get relayed because some implementations do not perform any checks
on the IP.

go-ethereum already prevented relay in most cases because it verifies
that the host actually exists before adding it to the local table. But
this verification causes other issues. We have received several reports
where people's VPSs got shut down by hosting providers because sending
packets to random LAN hosts is indistinguishable from a slow port scan.

The new check prevents sending random packets to LAN by discarding LAN
IPs sent by Internet hosts (and loopback IPs from LAN and Internet
hosts). The new check also blacklists almost all currently registered
special-purpose networks assigned by IANA to avoid inciting random
responses from services in the LAN.

As another precaution against abuse of the DHT, ports below 1024 are now
considered invalid.
2016-11-22 22:21:18 +01:00
Felix Lange
ba2884f343 p2p/discover, p2p/discv5: use netutil.IsTemporaryError 2016-11-22 22:21:15 +01:00
Zsolt Felfoldi
e33e57684f p2p/discv5: fixed bootnode connect issues 2016-11-14 13:22:19 +01:00
Felix Lange
b8bd9a71c8 all: update license information 2016-11-09 02:51:34 +01:00
Zsolt Felfoldi
49da42983a p2p/discv5: added new topic discovery package 2016-11-09 02:12:53 +01:00