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author | Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com> | 2014-11-18 22:16:32 +0100 |
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committer | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2015-11-29 11:59:23 +0100 |
commit | 50262d89531692473ff557c1061aee22aa4cca1c (patch) | |
tree | a9bcb626d8478da1293e1c11734cd0ac8776f62c /doc/bips.md | |
parent | c894fbbb1dc0778628fa3f246b92d673b3f70cfa (diff) |
Allow block announcements with headers
This replaces using inv messages to announce new blocks, when a peer requests
(via the new "sendheaders" message) that blocks be announced with headers
instead of inv's.
Since headers-first was introduced, peers send getheaders messages in response
to an inv, which requires generating a block locator that is large compared to
the size of the header being requested, and requires an extra round-trip before
a reorg can be relayed. Save time by tracking headers that a peer is likely to
know about, and send a headers chain that would connect to a peer's known
headers, unless the chain would be too big, in which case we revert to sending
an inv instead.
Based off of @sipa's commit to announce all blocks in a reorg via inv,
which has been squashed into this commit.
Rebased-by: Pieter Wuille
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