From kiwigb at yahoo.com Thu Mar 1 21:16:02 2018 From: kiwigb at yahoo.com (gb) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:16:02 +1300 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Pinging a route for capacity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1519938962.2842.0.camel@yahoo.com> .... and any thoughts on protections against flood pinging? On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 09:45 -0500, Jim Posen wrote: > The main benefit is that this should make it quicker to send a > successful payment because latency is lower than sending an actual > payment and the sender could ping all possible routes in parallel, > whereas they can't send multiple payments in parallel. The main > downside I can think of is that, by the same token, it is faster and > cheaper for someone to extract information about channel capacities on > the network with a binary search. > > > -jimpo > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev