From 9f8a131fa4b6b643e49ea1ebd13d9ed73ca74822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: arkpar <arkady.paronyan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:25:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] restart sync on getting old unknown header

---
 sync/src/chain.rs | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sync/src/chain.rs b/sync/src/chain.rs
index 316718571..8697c94a7 100644
--- a/sync/src/chain.rs
+++ b/sync/src/chain.rs
@@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ impl ChainSync {
 							debug!(target: "sync", "Mismatched block header {}", number + 1);
 							self.remove_downloaded_blocks(number + 1);
 						}
+						if self.have_common_block && number < self.current_base_block() + 1 {
+							// unkown header 
+							debug!(target: "sync", "Old block header {:?} ({}) is unknown, restarting sync", hash, number);
+							self.restart(io);
+							return Ok(());
+						}
 					}
 					let hdr = Header {
 						data: try!(r.at(i)).as_raw().to_vec(),