3c1bc40205 Add extra logging of asmap use and bucketing (Gleb Naumenko)
e4658aa8ea Return mapped AS in RPC call getpeerinfo (Gleb Naumenko)
ec45646de9 Integrate ASN bucketing in Addrman and add tests (Gleb Naumenko)
8feb4e4b66 Add asmap utility which queries a mapping (Gleb Naumenko)
Pull request description:
This PR attempts to solve the problem explained in #16599.
A particular attack which encouraged us to work on this issue is explained here [[Erebus Attack against Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network](https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg/)] (by @muoitranduc)
Instead of relying on /16 prefix to diversify the connections every node creates, we would instead rely on the (ip -> ASN) mapping, if this mapping is provided.
A .map file can be created by every user independently based on a router dump, or provided along with the Bitcoin release. Currently we use the python scripts written by @sipa to create a .map file, which is no larger than 2MB (awesome!).
Here I suggest adding a field to peers.dat which would represent a hash of asmap file used while serializing addrman (or 0 for /16 prefix legacy approach).
In this case, every time the file is updated (or grouping method changed), all buckets will be re-computed.
I believe that alternative selective re-bucketing for only updated ranges would require substantial changes.
TODO:
- ~~more unit tests~~
- ~~find a way to test the code without including >1 MB mapping file in the repo.~~
- find a way to check that mapping file is not corrupted (checksum?)
- comments and separate tests for asmap.cpp
- make python code for .map generation public
- figure out asmap distribution (?)
~Interesting corner case: I’m using std::hash to compute a fingerprint of asmap, and std::hash returns size_t. I guess if a user updates the OS to 64-bit, then the hash of asap will change? Does it even matter?~
ACKs for top commit:
laanwj:
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jamesob:
ACK 3c1bc40205 ([`jamesob/ackr/16702.3.naumenkogs.p2p_supplying_and_using`](https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin/tree/ackr/16702.3.naumenkogs.p2p_supplying_and_using))
jonatack:
ACK 3c1bc40205
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