syncthing / syncthing/syncthing
Remember previously used / discovered device addresses and retry them
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enhancement
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- Go
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Description
In addition to global and local discovery, try any addresses we've recently seen a given device use.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the global and local discovery paths to find where recently seen addresses for a device could be retained and retried. Confirm the expected behavior around trying those addresses in addition to discovery, and add or update tests so the work is complete when previously used addresses are attempted.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100