[freenet-dev] Minor Update Deadlock

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 20:40, Robert Hailey wrote:
> It would appear that if two nodes are simultaneously updated across a
> 'good' version, the 'link' between the two will forever be dead; each
> waiting for the other to get up to speed on the version, and each not
> wanting to connect to the other because it is too old, therefore
> never contacting the presumed-old node to realize that it is, in
> fact, compatible.

Not sure I understand.

We do send handshake attempts even if a node is TOO OLD, we just send them 
less frequently (maybe this is a bad thing). And in fact if we establish a 
connection we can UOM from them.
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