Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message

2012-03-13 Thread Luke-Jr
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,

[Bitcoin-development] 0.6rc3 binaries available

2012-03-13 Thread Gavin Andresen
Version 0.6 release candidate 3 binaries are available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/ The big reason to run rc3 is to get the BIP30 security fix that takes effect on March 15. It also includes a fix to the problem of running rc1, upgrading, and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message

2012-03-13 Thread Matt Corallo
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Hearn
TCP keep-alives aren't reliably implemented. I've got reports that sometimes we struggle to keep connection to the network on mobile, eg, because we roam into an area with poor connectivity but not poor enough for the network stack to drop access entirely. Being able to quickly check if the