>The number of knots nodes i'm connected to has dropped off a cliff. fascinating.

>I also ban all aws nodes from my node. surely a coincidence.

Are we not splitting hairs? ASmap makes you disconnect/not connect in the first place to a set of nodes, which is defined in the dat file.

Maybe it's not technically an (ip) ban, but the dat list acts de facto as a "shun list" the way i see it.

Please correct me if i'm wrong.