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Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:35:10 +0200
From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de>
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Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DOS-Attacks on bitcoin-client?
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Am 07.04.2013 17:22, schrieb Scott Howard:
> Many new users have started using the reference client which downloads
> the whole blockchain from peers.

Yes I have made a clean start because of the the new database structure.

> There currently isn't a throttling
> mechanism [1] so it's possible to quickly eat up your bandwidth. You
> can try QoS on your router or use the -nolisten command line flag. You
> will still relay transactions, just not serve the whole blockchain.

I see. I successfully have downloaded the Blockchain again. Thus, it 
should not occur again now. If it does, I'll be back again. :-)

Thank you for your quick help.

regards
Oliver