handle federation not telling us about prev_events

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/federation/federation_server.py b/synapse/federation/federation_server.py

index d4dd967c60..4096093527 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/federation_server.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/federation_server.py
@@ -549,7 +549,9 @@ class FederationServer(FederationBase):
                 affected=pdu.event_id,
             )
 
-        yield self.handler.on_receive_pdu(origin, pdu, get_missing=True)
+        yield self.handler.on_receive_pdu(
+            origin, pdu, get_missing=True, sent_to_us_directly=True,
+        )
 
     def __str__(self):
         return "<ReplicationLayer(%s)>" % self.server_name