senyor-seymour-butts / SemanticP2P

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Bootstrap #13

Open senyor-seymour-butts opened 8 years ago

senyor-seymour-butts commented 8 years ago

A peer cannot join the network unless it already knows of other peers on the network. We need to create a separate bootstrap service which can point a new peer to other peers. I'm hesitant about hardcoding this into the install as that would create a single point of failure for the network.

Ideally, we would use a set of tor addresses where the ip's they point to change often. The ip's would be the ip's of peers which can elect to become bootstrap nodes. I'm not sure if this is feasible with tor.