On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 hal at finney.org wrote:

> 
> My understanding, which may be somewhat out of date, is this: Normally
> when your node tries another node and it fails, your node will try
> again with a different one.  However the HTL gets decremented on the
> failing node.  If the failing node thrashed around badly enough before
> failing, it would return the RequestFailed message with an indication
> that it had used up all of the HTL in trying to forward the message.
> In that case your node will not try any others and will just return the
> RequestFailed back.
> 

Yep, I just ran 2 nodes with 10 bogus addresses in my nodes.config.  I
inserted to one of the nodes and it tried 6 of the bogus addresses and by
the time it got to the other node running, htl was down to 3.  Before I
tried this, I thought it didn't decrement htl for connect failures...


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