Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

docs: clarify FIND_NODE response for DHT-client nodes #644

Open
wants to merge 3 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion kad-dht/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -490,7 +490,9 @@ These are the requirements for each `MessageType`:

* `FIND_NODE`: In the request `key` must be set to the binary `PeerId` of the
node to be found. In the response `closerPeers` is set to the `k` closest
`Peer`s.
`Peer`s. Each closer peer will be a DHT server, unless `key` is an exact match
for a peer known to the node, in which case the closer peers will include the
matching peer, even if it is not a DHT server.

* `GET_VALUE`: In the request `key` is an unstructured array of bytes. `record`
is set to the value for the given key (if found in the datastore) and