Starting Height 692600??!!

[os2sam]

I was just checking my peers list in my Bitcoin client and I see a node which has a starting block height of 692600.  The block chain is only up to 358578 or so at the moment.  Anyone know what the deal is with this?
Thanks,
Sam

[fbueller]

Peers can lie. I haven't checked the code to see if it's directly because of this, but I assume someone is messing with their advertised block height. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#version check the start_height field.

[os2sam]

Peers can lie. I haven't checked the code to see if it's directly because of this, but I assume someone is messing with their advertised block height. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#version check the start_height field.

Why would someone mess with their advertised block height?

Anyway it's back

IP 147.87.116.160
Satoshi:0.10.1

Is there a way to blacklist nodes?
Sam