On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:38:28 PM Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Luke-Jr <l...@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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
