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@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ unreachable peer (dormant, or three unanswered HELLOs) it is a probe: after
every wait if shorter); members get probes even when they
aren't neighbours: those in the member list, as well as those whose HELLO_REPLY said so.
After a restart none has answered yet, and members that restart together may each fail
-to reach the others at first (not up yet): without probes, none would try again. A member a HELLO_REPLY lists among the sender's active neighbours is
+to reach the others at first (not up yet): without probes, none would try again. Nor
+should they wait for one: a peer never heard from gets HELLOs at the retry backoff (up
+to 30 s apart) for its first 5 minutes known, unreachable or not, and probes only after. A member a HELLO_REPLY lists among the sender's active neighbours is
probed at once: the sender reaches it, so after a partition the first pair to find each
other again brings the others' probes forward, and the sides reconnect within seconds
rather than pair by pair. So are all unreachable members once this node becomes