Merge branch 'deploy/all-2026-08-24' into 'deploy/soak-2026-08-21'

deploy: land MRs 1-12 and upstream 1.2.20, as shipped in relay component

See merge request !13

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/net.cpp b/src/net.cpp
index fed6123..bb05259 100644
--- a/src/net.cpp
+++ b/src/net.cpp
@@ -1560,12 +1560,41 @@ void ThreadSocketHandler2(void* parg)
                 unsigned int nNodes = 0;
                 CRITICAL_BLOCK(cs_vNodes)
                     nNodes = (unsigned int)vNodes.size();
+                // Also count how many connections this one address already
+                // holds. A single IP that keeps opening sockets -- a broken
+                // node or a deliberate connection-exhaustion flood -- must not
+                // be able to take the whole table, which is what starved the
+                // relays.
+                //
+                // Loopback is exempt. Onion peers reach a managed-Tor node
+                // through its local hidden-service listener, so every one of
+                // them accepts as 127.0.0.1; capping loopback would cap all
+                // inbound onion peers as a single group, which is the opposite
+                // of where the network is headed. The global MAX_CONNECTIONS
+                // still bounds the total, and the direct-IP flood this defends
+                // against never arrives over loopback. (Per-onion-identity
+                // limiting, once a peer's identity is known past accept(), is
+                // the right tool for onion and is left for later.)
+                bool fLoopback = (addr.GetByte(3) == 127);
+                unsigned int nFromThisIP = 0;
+                if (!fLoopback)
+                    CRITICAL_BLOCK(cs_vNodes)
+                        for (vector<CNode*>::iterator it = vNodes.begin(); it != vNodes.end(); ++it)
+                            if ((*it)->addr.ip == addr.ip)
+                                nFromThisIP++;
+
                 if (nNodes >= MAX_CONNECTIONS)
                 {
                     LogPrint("net", "refusing connection from %s, already at %u\n",
                              addr.ToString().c_str(), nNodes);
                     BtfCloseSocket(hSocket);
                 }
+                else if (!fLoopback && nFromThisIP >= MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_IP)
+                {
+                    LogPrint("net", "refusing connection from %s, already %u from that address\n",
+                             addr.ToString().c_str(), nFromThisIP);
+                    BtfCloseSocket(hSocket);
+                }
                 else
                 {
                     LogPrint("net", "accepted connection from %s\n", addr.ToString().c_str());
@@ -2090,7 +2119,7 @@ bool StartNode(string& strError)
     if (addrIncoming.ip)
         addrLocalHost.ip = addrIncoming.ip;
 
-    _beginthread([](void*) {
+    if (_beginthread([](void*) {
         unsigned int ip = addrLocalHost.ip;
         if (GetMyExternalIP(ip)) {
             addrLocalHost.ip = ip;
@@ -2098,7 +2127,8 @@ bool StartNode(string& strError)
             CWalletDB().WriteSetting("addrIncoming", addrIncoming);
             printf("External IP updated: %s\n", addrLocalHost.ToStringIP().c_str());
         }
-    }, 0, NULL);
+    }, 0, NULL) == (uintptr_t)-1)
+        printf("Error: _beginthread(GetMyExternalIP) failed\n");
 
     // Peers that answered last time, dialled straight away. The relays are the
     // only way to find anyone otherwise, and reaching them plus walking their