I think every one should have the right to disagree about the chain head - but he should not tell me all the time:
GoLog: I0305 11:44:49.604203 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:45:33.469136 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:45:52.695161 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:46:38.834750 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:47:00.482255 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:47:25.917655 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:47:58.996835 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:48:29.059101 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:48:59.110969 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:49:54.924330 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:50:01.418339 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:51:07.694199 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:51:09.246723 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:51:44.009963 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:52:14.168295 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:52:44.232525 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
art: Thread[3,tid=5586,WaitingInMainSignalCatcherLoop,Thread*=0x74b5f0896400,peer=0x12c4c670,"Signal Catcher"]: reacting to signal 3
art: Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
GoLog: I0305 11:53:22.698983 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:54:07.755289 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:54:31.084183 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:55:10.613901 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:55:41.619158 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:55:57.562820 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:56:47.485607 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:57:17.427046 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
GoLog: I0305 11:57:52.725973 eth/downloader/downloader.go:640] Peer f61925002670fd0a [hs 0.00/s, bs 0.00/s, rs 0.00/s, ss 0.00/s, miss 0, rtt 20s]: lied about chain head: reported 597917, found above 598093
Is there a good way to deal with this? Perhaps block the peer? This is really hurting the sync-process ( look at the timestamps - really bad UX this way )
As it came up: Parity/Kovan are no option for me. Neither technically nor politically.