Add whitelistforcerelay to control forced relaying. [#7099 redux] #7439

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   gmaxwell commented at 10:53 pm on January 28, 2016: contributor

   Also renames whitelistalwaysrelay.

   Nodes relay all transactions from whitelisted peers, this gets in the way of some useful reasons for whitelisting peers– for example, bypassing bandwidth limitations.

   The purpose of this forced relaying is for specialized gateway applications where a node is being used as a P2P connection filter and multiplexer, but where you don’t want it getting in the way of (re-)broadcast.

   This change makes it configurable with whitelistforcerelay.

2. Add whitelistforcerelay to control forced relaying.

   Also renames whitelistalwaysrelay.
   
   Nodes relay all transactions from whitelisted peers, this
    gets in the way of some useful reasons for whitelisting
    peers-- for example, bypassing bandwidth limitations.
   
   The purpose of this forced relaying is for specialized gateway
    applications where a node is being used as a P2P connection
    filter and multiplexer, but where you don't want it getting
    in the way of (re-)broadcast.
   
   This change makes it configurable with whitelistforcerelay.

   325c725fb6
3. jonasschnelli added the label P2P on Jan 29, 2016
4. 
   laanwj commented at 11:50 am on January 29, 2016: member

   utACK 325c725
5. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.12.0 on Jan 29, 2016
6. in src/init.cpp: in 325c725fb6 outdated

   752@@ -752,13 +753,19 @@ void InitParameterInteraction()
   753 
   754     // disable walletbroadcast and whitelistalwaysrelay in blocksonly mode
   

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   MarcoFalke commented at 4:51 pm on January 29, 2016:

   You’d need to make the rename globally; Also, I don’t like that this just ignores -whitelistalwaysrelay set in old .conf files.

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   laanwj commented at 10:50 am on January 30, 2016:

   Valid point, although how old can these conf files be, given that whitelistalwaysrelay was introduced in #6993 only two months ago, so isn’t in any releases.

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   MarcoFalke commented at 11:00 am on January 30, 2016:

   I guess there are three options:

   • Silently accept both variations
   • Ignore
   • Add it to the blacklist https://github.com/gmaxwell/bitcoin/blob/325c725fb6205e38142914acb9ed1733d8482d46/src/init.cpp#L892-L903
7. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 4:52 pm on January 29, 2016: member

   Concept ACK
8. 
   petertodd commented at 9:32 am on January 31, 2016: contributor

   utACK 325c725fb6205e38142914acb9ed1733d8482d46
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   laanwj commented at 12:21 pm on February 1, 2016: member

   Travis is failing, but I cannot quite see why.
10. 
    gmaxwell commented at 12:23 pm on February 1, 2016: contributor

    I think it started failing when I added the requested argument rejection. Does a test run with it? git grep yields nothing.
11. Blacklist -whitelistalwaysrelay; replaced by -whitelistrelay. 89d113e02a
12. 
    MarcoFalke commented at 12:38 pm on February 1, 2016: member

    utACK 89d113e. Thanks for sticking with this, I like the confs.
13. laanwj merged this on Feb 1, 2016
14. laanwj closed this on Feb 1, 2016

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