Peer dialing to self
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Description
Is it do-able to enable peers to dial themselves?
We have Raft using a libp2p-transport and it wants to dial itself all the time. It does not seem to cause undesired side-effects, but it does not seem crazy that any cluster-application using RPCs ends up trying to contact itself for some things. (same issue in ipfs-cluster RPC, but we worked around it).
Perhaps we can provide some shortcut at a higher level so that a peer contacting itself does not even attempt touch the network?
Pointers appreciated...
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Research direction
Start by tracing the libp2p peer-dialing entry point and how a local peer identity is handled by the transport. Compare the Raft and ipfs-cluster self-dial use cases described in the issue, then determine the appropriate higher-level behavior and tests needed to verify that self-connections avoid unnecessary network activity.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100