From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:45:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203131445.09552.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP17mwsmhShUKDOrZFsotLD+PHt6omNpL3-r21RtmHRX4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:06:38 PM Mike Hearn wrote:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/932 adds a "pong" message that
> echoes back a 64 bit nonce contained in the ping, if the protocol
> version is new enough.
>
> The goal of this is to make it easier for clients, especially mobile
> clients, to quickly check if a connection is stale, and also to see if
> a remote node is overloaded so we can avoid talking to it. A common
> case where this happens is if the remote node is itself downloading
> the block chain or doing something equally intensive.
>
> Any objections?
Not really an objection per se, but what's wrong with TCP keepalives?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 18:06 Mike Hearn
2012-03-13 18:45 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2012-03-13 19:48 ` Matt Corallo
2012-03-13 22:29 ` Mike Hearn
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