On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 14:45 -0400, Luke-Jr wrote: > 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? > It wont tell you if the node itself is overloaded (not just the OS' network stack).
Looks good to me. Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
