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@@ -302,8 +302,10 @@ has an active session with (handshake done, neither dormant nor unreachable), ea
an 8-byte key (the hash its pair scores come from), in its keepalive STATUSes and
their replies, and within 5 s when it changed; not in announcements of heads, which go
often. So every node knows its 2-hop neighbourhood as measured, not as the member list
-says, for as long as it is fresh (two STATUS refreshes and a keepalive: 7 minutes with
-the default keepalive), and nothing goes into the document. `GET /peers` shows it
+says, for as long as each neighbour's session lasts (one that goes dormant or starts
+anew says it again), and nothing goes into the document. Not for a set time: while a
+pair exchanges changes it sends no keepalives, and so no STATUS, however long the
+writes go on. `GET /peers` shows it
(`localReaches`, and `reaches` per peer).
A writer's changes pass on along its tree ([`swarm/tree.rs`](../src/swarm/tree.rs)), the same on every node: