Peers should heartbeat the tracker

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Peers should heartbeat the tracker

Closed this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

Peers should heartbeat the tracker so that the tracker knows which peer is still alive

Answer 1 · 2016-08-01T21:11:37.000Z

Answer 2 · 2016-08-02T12:14:39.000Z

We want each peer to periodically send a GET request to the tracker. The tracker should delete an entry if it didn't receive a request since X seconds

Answer 3 · 2016-09-14T14:06:06.000Z

This is not needed anymore, having a retry until they get enough peers should be fine