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Ok, my question was really as to how they even discover each other but some more perusing of that site shows that they connect to a IRC channel. I thought ther
by cheez 15y ago
Ok, my question was really as to how they even discover each other but some more perusing of that site shows that they connect to a IRC channel.
I thought there was no centralized point-of-failure?
- weavejester 15y agoThe IRC channel just provides an initial set of peers. There's a hard-coded list of peers it falls back on if the IRC channel fails. I believe there's been some discussion about diversifying the initial peer discovery further.