During a recent IBD in August, I noticed a sudden drop from ~120 to ~100 peers.
This was due to these IPs:
142.93.63.225
172.233.57.109
198.244.232.117
78.47.52.58
I had 5 inbound connections from each of these addresses (each using a different port), and they all disconnected at the same time, so I assume they belong to the same entity.
I noticed these too! I have a screenshot showing my freshly restarted nodes (they don’t have full inbound peers again yet) and these nodes connecting and disconnecting at the same time to my nodes.
Also have this log line:
receive version message: /Satoshi:27.0.0/: version 70016, blocks=754565, us=*:8333, txrelay=0, peer=55068 peeraddr=78.47.52.58:36232, mapped_as=24940
And probably more data to analyze in archived debug.logs. I’ll post an update here once I get to analyzing them.
