Configurable User Agent Filtering for IBD #11
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This PR adds a hybrid black/whitelist in order to filter for suitable user agents. Btcd's initial block download can stall intermittently due to targeting a bcash node as the primary sync peer, and not detecting that the sync has been blocked. This provides a temporary solution in order to get a btcd node fully synced, after which it is less imperative to continue filtering by user agents.
The black and whitelists can be modified in the configuration file using the tags
agentblacklist
andagentwhitelist
. The blacklist is applied before the whitelist, using the following procedure:An example configuration that seems to remedy the problem: