- Fix an erroneous high fee penalty that peers could incur for sending
older transactions.
- Update to the fees charged for imposing a load on the server.
- Prevent the relaying of internal pseudo-transactions.
- Before: Pseudo-transactions received from a peer will fail the signature
check, even if they were requested (using TMGetObjectByHash), because
they have no signature. This causes the peer to be charge for an
invalid signature.
- After: Pseudo-transactions, are put into the global cache
(TransactionMaster) only. If the transaction is not part of
a TMTransactions batch, the peer is charged an unwanted data fee.
These fees will not be a problem in the normal course of operations,
but should dissuade peers from behaving badly by sending a bunch of
junk.
- Improve logging: include the reason for fees charged to a peer.
Co-authored-by: Ed Hennis <ed@ripple.com>
The existing logic involves every server sending every transaction
that it receives to all its peers (except the one that it received
a transaction from).
This commit instead uses a randomized algorithm, where a node will
randomly select peers to relay a given transaction to, caching the
list of transaction hashes that are not relayed and forwading them
to peers once every second. Peers can then determine whether there
are transactions that they have not seen and can request them from
the node which has them.
It is expected that this feature will further reduce the bandwidth
needed to operate a server.
