Misbehaving Nodes

📘 Changes regarding misbehaving peers

Dash Core 18.1.0 introduced changes to how misbehaving peers are treated.

Take note that for both types of broadcasting, mechanisms are in place to punish misbehaving peers who take up bandwidth and computing resources by sending false information. Since Dash Core 18.1.0, peers that misbehave (e.g. send us invalid blocks) are referred to as discouraged nodes in log output. They are not strictly banned: incoming connections are still allowed from them, but they’re preferred for eviction.

Furthermore, a few additional changes are introduced to how discouraged addresses are treated:

• Discouraging an address does not time out automatically after 24 hours (or the -bantime setting). Depending on traffic from other peers, discouragement may time out at an indeterminate time.

• Discouragement is not persisted over restarts.

• There is no method to list discouraged addresses. They are not returned by the listbanned RPC.

• Discouragement cannot be removed with the setban remove RPC command. If you need to remove a discouragement, you can remove all discouragements by stopping and restarting your node.

If a peer gets a banscore above the -banscore=<n> threshold (100 by default), they will be disconnected and discouraged.

Type	Misbehavior	Ban Score	Description
Net	GetBlockTxn Index Error	100	Peer relayed a getblocktxn message with out-of-bound indices
Net	Bloom Filter Service	100	Bloom filter message received from peer that has bloom filter commands disabled by default (protocol version > 70201) (filterload message, filteradd message, or filterclear message)
Net	Block Rejected	1	Peer rejected the block it requested from us
Net	Duplicate Version	1	Duplicate version message received
Net	Wrong Devnet	100	Peer responded with the wrong devnet version (version message)
Net	Wrong Devnet	1	Peer connected using the wrong devnet version (version message)
Net	No Version	1	Received a message prior to receiving a version message
Net	No Verack	1	After sending version message, received a message other than a verack message back first
Net	Address List Size	20	More than 1000 addresses received (addr message)
Net	Inventory List	20	More than MAX_INV_SZ (50000) inventories received (inv message)
Net	Get Data Size	20	More than MAX_INV_SZ (50000) inventories requested (getdata message)
Net	Orphan Transaction	Varies	Peer relayed an invalid orphan transaction. Ban score varies from 0-100 based on the specific reason (values set by AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker())
Net	Bad Transaction	Varies	Transaction rejected from the mempool
Net	Invalid Header	Varies	Invalid block header received from peer (cmpctblock message)
Net	Invalid CompactBlock	100	Invalid compact block /non-matching block transactions received from peer (cmpctblock message)
Net	Header List Size	20	More than MAX_HEADERS_RESULTS (2000) headers received (headers message)
Net	Header List Sequence	20	Non-continous headers sequence received (headers message)
Net	Invalid Block	Varies	Invalid block header received from peer
Net	Bloom Filter Size	100	Maximum script element size (520) exceeded (filterload message or filteradd message)
Net	MN List Diff	1	Failed to get masternode list diff (getmnlistd message)
Net	Unrequested MN List Diff	100	Peer provided an unrequested masternode list diff (mnlistdiff message)
InstantSend	Invalid Lock Message	100	Invalid TXID or inputs in lock message (isdlock message)
InstantSend	Verify Error	20	Peer relayed a message that failed to verify
LLMQ ChainLock	Invalid	10	Invalid ChainLock message (clsig message)
LLMQ Commitment	Null QcTx	100	Peer relayed a block with a null commitment
LLMQ Commitment	Invalid LLMQ Type	100	Peer relayed a block containing an invalid LLMQ Type
LLMQ Commitment	Invalid Height	100	Peer relayed a block that is not the first block in the DKG interval
LLMQ Commitment	Invalid Commitment	100	Peer relayed a block with an invalid quorum commitment
LLMQ DKG	Empty Message	100	Peer relayed a message with no payload
LLMQ DKG	Invalid LLMQ Type	100	Peer relayed a message for an incorrect LLMQ Type
LLMQ DKG	Invalid Message	100	Peer relayed a message that could not be deserialized
LLMQ DKG	Preverify Failed	100	Peer relayed a message that could not be pre-verified
LLMQ DKG	Signature	100	Peer relayed a message with an invalid signature
LLMQ DKG	Full Verify Failed	100	Peer relayed a message that failed full verification
LLMQ Signing	Too Many Messages	100	Maximum message count exceed in qsigsesann message, qsigsinv message, qgetsigs message, or qbsigs message
LLMQ Signing	Signature	100	Peer relayed a message with an invalid recovered signature or signature share
Masternode Authentication	Duplicate Message	100	Only 1 message allowed (mnauth message)
Masternode Authentication	Invalid Services	100	Peer not advertising NODE_NETWORK or NODE_BLOOM services (mnauth message)
Masternode Authentication	Empty Hash	100	Peer relayed a message with a null ProRegTx hash (mnauth message)
Masternode Authentication	Signature	100	Peer relayed a message with an invalid signature (mnauth message)
Masternode Authentication	Invalid MN	10	Peer not in the valid masternode list (mnauth message)
Masternode Authentication	Invalid Signature	10	Signature verification failed (mnauth message)
Governance	Sync	20	Requesting a governance sync too frequently (govsync message with empty hash)
Governance	Invalid Object	20	Peer relayed an invalid governance object (govobj message)
Governance	Invalid Vote	20	Peer relayed an invalid/invalid old vote(govobjvote message)
Governance	Unsupported Vote Signal	20	Vote signal outside the accepted range (see govobjvote message)
CoinJoin	Signature	10	Peer relayed a message with an invalid signature (dsq message)
Spork	Invalid Time	100	Peer relayed a spork with a timestamp too far in the future (spork message)
Spork	Signature	100	Peer relayed a spork with an invalid signature (spork message)