aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/zmq.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-04-19 15:36:58 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-04-19 15:44:38 +0200
commita1eb344ba8f4ef7dade755c823a9d001f837ae7d (patch)
treed063a57050a83688d042ceb308066c64dbbd9da8 /doc/zmq.md
parent0e6fd5e4af31ada6da8df006801b59e9178ecd85 (diff)
parent0b25a9fb42d5df54ea35ddb2bb4837e1e29355fd (diff)
Merge #7762: [ZMQ] append a message sequence number to every ZMQ notification
0b25a9f [ZMQ] append a message sequence number to every ZMQ notification (Jonas Schnelli) de821d5 [ZMQ] refactor message string (Jonas Schnelli)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/zmq.md')
-rw-r--r--doc/zmq.md5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/zmq.md b/doc/zmq.md
index 902d1124c7..8d795a388a 100644
--- a/doc/zmq.md
+++ b/doc/zmq.md
@@ -99,3 +99,8 @@ using other means such as firewalling.
Note that when the block chain tip changes, a reorganisation may occur
and just the tip will be notified. It is up to the subscriber to
retrieve the chain from the last known block to the new tip.
+
+There are several possibilities that ZMQ notification can get lost
+during transmission depending on the communication type your are
+using. Bitcoind appends an up-counting sequence number to each
+notification which allows listeners to detect lost notifications.