Neighbor recommendations

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IOTA Reference Implementation

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Neighbor recommendations #1354

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

It seems that the links in this repo's readme.md to the documentation website (https://iota.readme.io/reference) and API reference (https://docs.iota.org/iri) don't work anymore.

Description

I have a few questions:

What is the preferred way of connecting to neighbors? TCP or UDP? And why support both?
What is the preferred number of neighbors, 3, 4, 5? If many neighbors are a problem, why not block it in IRI?

Motivation

Make it more clear for full node owners to set-up their node correctly.

Requirements

Documentation

jakubcech commented 5 years ago

Thanks for opening this @nstrat, I agree we should be clearer on the recommended numbers.

From my experience anywhere between 3-7 works fine. I've also seen more, but I don't think it's necessary. We're now building some nightly tests that should help us establish this by numbers I'm hoping. Then we'll update the instructions.

I'll update the links and keep this issue to be resolved once we have better recommendations.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Thanks @jakubcech , sounds good.

Any ideas on when and why to choose TCP or UDP to connect to your neighbors?

GalRogozinski commented 5 years ago

What is the preferred way of connecting to neighbors? TCP or UDP? And why support both?

Sorry for the late response. Technically, TCP is more reliable and this should be your choice. UDP is implemented as a reference for an IOT implementation.