aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/docs/architecture.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-03 02:43:15 +0100
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-03 02:43:15 +0100
commit5cd26d321b706113afb8431aba35ab8fb32281c4 (patch)
treeae1a64479a29182c44a2375417f74583e4ee074a /docs/architecture.md
parente4709cc6ab3fca7f7ce40793aa5cceb64f0bfea3 (diff)
announcements answered only if heads differ
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/architecture.md')
-rw-r--r--docs/architecture.md2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index cc738c1..1a320fc 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ the member list makes its neighbour.
replies, admit (swarm key), mark the peer seen, record its epoch (ignoring late ones),
then by type: HELLO answered, HELLO_REPLY establishes membership and discovers peers,
sync queued on its lane if on our epoch (held back from everyone but the source while catching
-up), STATUS answered with a STATUS_REPLY and compared for divergence, blobs served or collected,
+up), STATUS answered with a STATUS_REPLY (an announcement only if the heads differ) and compared for divergence, blobs served or collected,
LINKS answered with the node's links if the asker is a member, and again on each change while it subscribes, or with other members' links it asks for the asker, which can't reach them (`swarm::links`, for the dashboard);
PING and PONG (the paths layer answered the PING already) only mark the peer seen, and
after a PONG the peer's round-trip time is its path's again.