# Bitcoin P2P Connection Flooding Detected

https://b10c.me/observations/05-inbound-connection-flooder-down/

Short-lived P2P connections with fake user agents were observed on a Bitcoin Core node. These spiked when inbound slots were full and dropped abruptly around 7:00 am UTC. Connections primarily originated from three net_groups with uncommon user agents.

Image: https://b10c.me/data/observations/05-inbound-connection-flooder-down/connections-dropping.png

Image: https://b10c.me/data/observations/05-inbound-connection-flooder-down/opened-connections-by-netgroup.png

Image: https://b10c.me/data/observations/05-inbound-connection-flooder-down/sequence-diagram.svg

#bitcoin #p2p #connections

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Canonical URL: https://qwibbit.com/q18548

Created: 2026-10-23T18:13:59.775747+00:00

Last edited: 2026-10-23T18:13:59.775747+00:00

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Original source: https://b10c.me/observations/05-inbound-connection-flooder-down/