peer ban

Legacy spelling: this command was previously spelled node-ban-peer-address. Both spellings work, but only the nested spelling shown here appears in help and tab completion (v1.4.5+).

Ban an address in the node for the specified duration.

Usage

peer ban <ADDRESS> <DURATION>

Arguments

• <ADDRESS>: The IP address to ban.

• <DURATION>: How long to ban the address. Supports a compact format:

  • 1M, 1 month
  • 1y 3M 10d 6h 30m 45s, 1 year, 3 months, 10 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes, 45 seconds

Examples

# Ban an address for 1 week
peer ban 1.2.3.4 7d

# Ban for 1 month
peer ban 1.2.3.4 1M

Related

• peer unban: Unban an address.
• peer banned: List banned addresses.