While starting up a node (commit 6fc6325), it was apparently taking curiously long to load the ban list. RPC (in warmup mode) kept returning `Loading banlist...`. When I checked the log I happened upon the following:

```
2016-05-30 07:35:00 init message: Loading banlist...
2016-05-30 07:35:26 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000045614e4901f822a86e4015543acc6a68653cc9450f0f330 height=410222 version=0x20000000 log2_work=84.600836 tx=126776938 date='2016-05-04 18:0
1:59' progress=0.984518 cache=8.8MiB(5488tx)
...
2016-05-30 07:39:43 DNS seeding disabled
2016-05-30 07:39:43 opencon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 msghand thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 addcon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 init message: Done loading
2016-05-30 07:39:43 net thread start
```

I think it's a matter of the init message not being updated for a new initialization phase after loading the banlist.

sigemptyset(&sa_hup.sa_mask);
    sa_hup.sa_flags = 0;
    sigaction(SIGHUP, &sa_hup, NULL);
    
    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
#endif
    
    const CChainParams& chainparams = Params();
    
    
    if (GetArg("-prune", 0)) {
        if (GetBoolArg("-txindex", DEFAULT_TXINDEX))
            return InitError(_("Prune mode is incompatible with -txindex."));
#ifdef ENABLE_WALLET
        if (GetBoolArg("-rescan", false)) {
            return InitError(_("Rescans are not possible in pruned mode. You will need to use -reindex which will download the whole blockchain again."));
        }
#endif
    }
    
    int nBind = std::max((int)mapArgs.count("-bind") + (int)mapArgs.count("-whitebind"), 1);
    int nUserMaxConnections = GetArg("-maxconnections", DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS);
    nMaxConnections = std::max(nUserMaxConnections, 0);
    
    nMaxConnections = std::max(std::min(nMaxConnections, (int)(FD_SETSIZE - nBind - MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS)), 0);
    int nFD = RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(nMaxConnections + MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS);
    if (nFD < MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS)
        return InitError(_("Not enough file descriptors available."));
    nMaxConnections = std::min(nFD - MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS, nMaxConnections);
    if (nMaxConnections < nUserMaxConnections)