From 324293f4cbbc108c66fa09bc24ac3e863f2b7671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:30:03 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] note on preventing abuse [ci skip]

---
 pex_reactor.go | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pex_reactor.go b/pex_reactor.go
index 89599f4b4..3a3d66714 100644
--- a/pex_reactor.go
+++ b/pex_reactor.go
@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ const (
 // adequate number of peers are connected to the switch.
 //
 // It uses `AddrBook` (address book) to store `NetAddress`es of the peers.
+//
+// ## Preventing abuse
+//
+// For now, it just limits the number of messages from one peer to
+// `defaultMaxMsgCountByPeer` messages per `msgCountByPeerFlushInterval` (1000
+// msg/hour).
+//
+// NOTE [2017-01-17]:
+//   Limiting is fine for now. Maybe down the road we want to keep track of the
+//   quality of peer messages so if peerA keeps telling us about peers we can't
+//   connect to then maybe we should care less about peerA. But I don't think
+//   that kind of complexity is priority right now.
 type PEXReactor struct {
 	BaseReactor