Reported here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12629#issuecomment-381095603 by @Empact. I've seen it now in a few different travis jobs, including: https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/366157920 https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/366139851 From my initial investigation it seems like there may be an actual bug in block announcement, so I'm opening this issue to track.