Can setban be used in config file? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

168 sats \ 5 comments \ @xz 30 Mar 2023 bitcoin

I'm sure everyone knows that setban can be called by using bitcoin-cli

Just wondered if you could start bitcoind with these flags. Or better, ban an IP in .conf file. Or, is this only possible through whitelisting IPs? Also, if anyone can explain the full commmand:

bitcoin-cli setban IP/range add [long string of numbers]

Thanks!

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz OP 3 Apr 2023

@DarthCoin

I see that using bitcoin-cli enforces setban on restarts anyway. Thanks again for the helpful search/links.

52 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 30 Mar 2023

https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/setban.html I think there is also a command to use a txt list of IPs but can't remember now. I use it once in 2017 to ban the bcasher nodes.

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @xz OP 30 Mar 2023

Thanks. That's clearer. So that long string of numbers may be the ban time? I see that can be put in there like so (which is why I wanted to clarify.)

[network]

bantime=8048343948

Was reading some of your helpful words today, so have a few sats :-]

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 30 Mar 2023

When you need to search some technical explanation about bitcoin, you could also use the search engine dedicated to bitcoin related questions: https://bitcoinsearch.xyz

Sometimes helps, but not always.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz OP 30 Mar 2023

Thanks for that. One for the browser search!