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diff --git a/docs/glossary.md b/docs/glossary.md index e8ccdee..fd165f1 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.md +++ b/docs/glossary.md @@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ STATUS_REPLY instead, carrying the sender's heads (or a digest of them and some them), epoch and readiness. The two sides of a pair take turns; the one that **leads** the pair sends the first. The paths layer's PINGs of a path take turns with the peer's too, so each side measures a path's round trip every other interval: a shorter -`--keepalive` measures more often. +`--keepalive` measures more often. A path whose way out broke while the peer's PINGs +still come is found by this node's own unanswered PINGs, three in a row, which then +come every one to two intervals: up to twice as long as without the turns. Unanswered +traffic or a failed send pings at once, and the peer finds it by its own missing +PONGs. **initial sync**: a joining node's first complete sync. It's **caught up** once a ready peer with non-empty heads has nothing left that it lacks. |