VasiliyRus, on 28 March 2013 - 02:19 PM, said:
I am note sure my question is related to thread' s theme but it's about its subject.
Sometimes i see zero node ID in Kad tab like on screenshot below:
Why it is 0000... ? Is there anything wrong with it ?
It's quite
normal common to have a contact with Kad ID =
000000..0000 among your contacts. And no, I haven't found any direct relationship with the Chinese attackers. But for some reason they show some interest in exactly that ID and others very close to it, like
000000..0000001F023BE31 or something similar. They do this occasionally by sending kademlia requests and asking for the closest
31 contacts to that ID. A normal node only asks for 2, 4 or 11 contacts depending on the request.
There is one another group IIRC abusing the network with spam which occasionally also is interested in about almost the same space. Surprisingly they too asks for
31 contacts, but that's the only connection I've seen between these two groups. This second group which has been around for several years is hosted in U S A and normally they can be identified by the habit of using UDP port 17770.
This post has been edited by Nissenice: 29 March 2013 - 09:17 PM