From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] P2P feature discovery (was Re: BIP 33 - Stratized Nodes)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:38:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpcFPdj9akeU9kN9CxERWp5VxKt7g0-mN4tf8NxsAe2+_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205161829.44967.luke@dashjr.org>
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> That assumes you already have a connection to the peer in question.
> As I understand it, the service bits are propagated as part of the address,
> so you can see at a glance which nodes you want to connect to for some
> special service. Passing a huge list along might be unwieldy (though it
> makes sense for protocol changes that don't add new services).
If the peer list becomes too, um, stratified maybe that's a Big Hint
that said clients should be using another network entirely, and not
overloading bitcoin's P2P network for wholly unrelated tasks. The
bitcoin P2P network is not a general message transit network.
Another argument against the proposal, IOW, if you ask me....
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti•com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-16 18:18 Jeff Garzik
2012-05-16 18:29 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-16 18:38 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2012-05-16 18:46 ` Luke-Jr
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