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P2P Circuit Advertisements

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Description

The next step to getting relays working is to figure out how to advertise addresses proxied through a relay.

Random thoughts:

  1. Ignore unspecific relay advertisements. That is, ignore all advertisements of the form /p2p-circuit/ipfs/QmId (no relay specified). These are pretty much useless and could be used to trick nodes into doing a lot of work.
  2. Have relays publish p2p-circuit addresses for their relayed peers. This will get us one step closer to using circuits for privacy. The downside is that advertising these addresses could be a lot of work.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the existing relay and p2p-circuit specifications, then clarify the intended advertisement behavior and scope; done would be an agreed specification covering unspecific relay advertisements and advertisements for relayed peers.

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Assessment

Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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