Every now and then these peers connect to my node with 3 connections each. They don't take up much bandwidth but they hold the connections open for a long time.
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They claim to be SPV clients. Are they valid peers and why do they need 3 connections?
Is there an easy way to ban multiple connections from the same IP, without say, doing something drastic like blacklisting AWS IP addresses.