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On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:38:28 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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....
No, I meant the inverse. If only a small minority of nodes are stratified,
the clients need some way to figure out which ones, without connecting to
every node.
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