On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Wladimir <laa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: >>> He wants to use it to advertise services that are not part of the P2P >>> protocol itself, but run on a different port. Reserving services bits >>> for those is not acceptable. >> >> >> Why not? Does the port matter much? > > Yes. The services bits are for advertising services on the P2P > network. That's not open for discussion.
It also wouldn't work. A bit is not enough to find an external service except in the naive case where the advertised service would have a fixed port. Not even bitcoind has a fixed port. So there needs to be a mechanism to find how to connect to the 'external service'. This is provided by the proposed extension. It would in principle be possible to advertise an extra service bit *in addition to* this one, to make it easier to find through the addr mechanism. But it would be confusing and IMO an abuse of P2P service bits. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
