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Summary

Identify events currently copy every advertised listen address into Kademlia with no application-level lifetime or cardinality bound. This change bounds Identify-derived address state while preserving explicitly configured peer addresses.

No directly matching issue or pull request was found after searching the current tracker for Identify Push and Kademlia address limits, eviction, TTL, and growth controls.

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  • cap Identify-derived addresses at 8 per peer and 1,024 globally with deterministic FIFO eviction
  • admit at most 8 new addresses per peer per minute and expire unrefreshed entries after 30 minutes
  • canonicalize the peer suffix and reject addresses naming a different peer
  • retain explicit AddKnownPeer addresses when an overlapping Identify lease expires
  • cover per-peer and global bounds, cumulative rate limiting, expiry, and address normalization

Test plan

  • cargo test -p gitlawb-node p2p::tests::
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo clippy -p gitlawb-node --bin gitlawb-node -- -D warnings

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  • New Features

    • Peer-discovered network addresses are now retained temporarily across disconnects.
    • Address tracking includes expiration, rate limits, per-peer and global capacity limits, duplicate normalization, and predictable eviction.
    • Address updates refresh existing entries and retain a stable subset when reports exceed capacity.
    • Expired or evicted discovered addresses are automatically removed, while explicitly configured addresses remain available.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation and cleanup of peer-discovered addresses to prevent stale or invalid entries.

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Identify-derived peer addresses now use bounded retention with canonicalization, rate limiting, FIFO eviction, TTL expiration, and cleanup. Explicit addresses remain preserved while Kademlia reflects accepted and removed Identify addresses.

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Identify address retention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Address book limits and eviction
crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs
Adds an internal address book with canonicalization, refresh handling, per-peer and global caps, rate limiting, FIFO eviction, and expiration.
Persistent cleanup and event integration
crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs
Retains Identify state across disconnects, removes evicted or expired addresses from Kademlia, and preserves addresses registered through AddKnownPeer.
Retention behavior tests
crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs
Tests peer validation, canonicalization, capacity limits, rate limits, global eviction, refresh behavior, and TTL expiration.

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Identify-derived address retention is bounded while configured peer addresses remain preserved. No concrete merge-blocking risk is currently identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Identify
  participant P2PState
  participant AddressBook
  participant Kademlia
  Identify->>P2PState: Report peer addresses
  P2PState->>AddressBook: Apply bounded update
  AddressBook-->>P2PState: Accepted and removed addresses
  P2PState->>Kademlia: Add accepted addresses
  P2PState->>Kademlia: Remove evicted or expired addresses
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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs`:
- Around line 249-261: Update the per-peer address handling around the eviction
loop and refresh logic so entries refreshed during the current Identify update
are never evicted; when the report exceeds IDENTIFY_ADDRESS_LIMIT, drop surplus
new addresses instead. Preserve insertion-token and address-count bookkeeping,
and add a test covering two consecutive oversized updates that verifies the
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This PR introduces a bounded lease-based address book for addresses learned through libp2p Identify while preserving explicitly configured Kademlia addresses.

  • Caps Identify-derived addresses per peer and globally with deterministic FIFO eviction.
  • Applies per-peer admission rate limits and periodic TTL expiration.
  • Canonicalizes peer suffixes and rejects addresses naming another peer.
  • Adds focused tests for bounds, rate limiting, expiration, and normalization.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge, with no concrete blocking or independently actionable non-blocking defect identified.

The new address-book transitions preserve their count and insertion-order invariants, bound untrusted Identify state, reject mismatched peer suffixes, and guard explicitly configured addresses from Identify-driven removal.

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Filename Overview
crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs Adds internally consistent Identify-address lease, rate-limit, expiration, canonicalization, and explicit-ownership handling with targeted unit coverage.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    I[Identify Received] --> U[Canonicalize and update Identify address book]
    U -->|New address| A[Add to Kademlia]
    U -->|Per-peer or global eviction| G{Also explicitly configured?}
    T[Periodic TTL cleanup] --> E[Expire stale Identify leases]
    E --> G
    G -->|Yes| K[Keep Kademlia address]
    G -->|No| R[Remove from Kademlia]
    C[AddKnownPeer command] --> X[Record explicit ownership]
    X --> A
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@beardthelion beardthelion added crate:node gitlawb-node — the serving node and REST API kind:bug Defect fix — wrong or unsafe behavior subsystem:peers Peer announce, discovery, and registry labels Sep 7, 2026

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The core address-book logic is sound. I verified all six named guards are load-bearing by gutting each one in turn and running its test: per-peer cap, rate limit, global cap, TTL expiry, foreign-peer-suffix rejection, and refresh-preserving eviction all go RED when their guard is removed and GREEN when restored. CI is green (13 checks, 0 bad). The one inline thread about FIFO eviction discarding refreshed addresses is resolved in the code itself: the eviction only targets entries not in the current report, and if all entries were refreshed, it breaks instead of evicting.

This PR shares crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs with #324, #325, and #334, so a rebase onto any of them will be mechanical.

Findings

  • [P3] Log the dropped address in AddKnownPeer
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/p2p/mod.rs:665
    The new with_p2p call on the AddKnownPeer path silently drops an address whose /p2p/ suffix names a different peer. The continue gives no signal. A warn! before it would make the drop observable when this handler gains callers.

Not an ask, recorded only: update processes the full listen_addrs slice (clone, canonicalize, hash, sort) before the 8-address admission cap applies. libp2p-identify 0.47.0 caps an Identify message at 4096 bytes, so the practical input is bounded to roughly 130 addresses, but pre-truncating the slice before processing would be defense in depth.

Not an ask, recorded only: update inserts an empty IdentifyPeerAddresses entry before filtering addresses, so a peer whose report is empty or all-foreign-suffix leaves an uncounted row. These are cleaned on the 60-second expiry tick but are not bounded by the 1,024 global address cap in the meantime. Each entry is small and requires a distinct PeerId with an active connection, so the practical risk is low.

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