0003481: DHT monitor should allow dropping / ignoring of requests

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0003481	GNUnet	DHT service	public	2014-07-02 15:38	2018-06-06 22:51

Reporter	Christian Grothoff	Assigned To		Due Date
Priority	low	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	confirmed	Resolution	open
Product Version	Git master

Summary	0003481: DHT monitor should allow dropping / ignoring of requests
Description	In the P2P course, it was discussed (for Scribe) that a feature for the monitor to drop an observed request (force it not to be routed further or stored) can be desirable. This could also be used to simulate malicious peers. While the result would not be strictly a 'monitor' anymore, clearly the monitor API would be the right place to do this. For example, the callback could simply indicate to 'continue forwarding' or 'drop/ignore' by return value. A main change in the service would of course be that we'd now have to wait for 'all' monitors to give us that return value via IPC before continuing to process a request. However, as we usually might not have a monitor, this might be cheap. We might also want to allow monitors to register only for certain block types to keep the cost down even more.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-07-02 15:38	Christian Grothoff	New Issue
2014-07-02 15:38	Christian Grothoff	Status	new => assigned
2014-07-02 15:38	Christian Grothoff	Assigned To	=> Bart Polot
2014-08-06 09:41	Christian Grothoff	Relationship added	has duplicate 0003509
2018-06-06 22:51	Christian Grothoff	Assigned To	Bart Polot =>
2018-06-06 22:51	Christian Grothoff	Priority	normal => low
2018-06-06 22:51	Christian Grothoff	Status	assigned => confirmed