syncing new node (two log curiosities)

[onemorebtc]

at first i saw that during sync there were thousands of orphan blocks. why? who broadcasts them still?

second i saw this log lines:
2015-02-18 12:17:12 ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool : nonstandard transaction: dust
2015-02-18 12:17:13 ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool: : nonstandard transaction input

(there is a colon to much)

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[funkenstein]

Dust and nonstandard inputs are to be expected on an open network, but logging of nonstandard error messages is a bit strange? 

Did somebody say log?

[onemorebtc]

Dust and nonstandard inputs are to be expected on an open network, but logging of nonstandard error messages is a bit strange? 

Did somebody say log?

its consequent to log a nonstand error in an nonstandard way

[onemorebtc]

at first i saw that during sync there were thousands of orphan blocks. why? who broadcasts them still?

bump

anyone?
i'd really like to know why so much old and orphaned blocks are still distributed. i dont see any reason for this.

or did i just misread my log?

[zvs]

at first i saw that during sync there were thousands of orphan blocks. why? who broadcasts them still?

bump

anyone?
i'd really like to know why so much old and orphaned blocks are still distributed. i dont see any reason for this.

or did i just misread my log?

when you're downloading the entire blockchain, that includes orphaned blocks

there also used to be a bug where it'd spit out some godawful amount of orphan blocks when you were DLing from several different sources.  i think that was fixed, not sure

[onemorebtc]

at first i saw that during sync there were thousands of orphan blocks. why? who broadcasts them still?

bump

anyone?
i'd really like to know why so much old and orphaned blocks are still distributed. i dont see any reason for this.

or did i just misread my log?

when you're downloading the entire blockchain, that includes orphaned blocks

there also used to be a bug where it'd spit out some godawful amount of orphan blocks when you were DLing from several different sources.  i think that was fixed, not sure

i synced with 0.9.4 so it may be that it was this bug.

i dont understand why "downloading the hole chain" does include orphans too. afaik they are not broadcasted (as they dont have any use)