latest.ipv8.dht.churn

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Classes

PingChurn

Strategy to maintain the data structures of the DHT community.

class latest.ipv8.dht.churn.PingChurn(overlay: latest.ipv8.types.DHTCommunity, ping_interval: float = 25.0)

Bases: latest.ipv8.peerdiscovery.discovery.DiscoveryStrategy

Strategy to maintain the data structures of the DHT community.

take_step() → None

Every tick (half-second by default), performs maintainence.

If routing tables are set up:

• Remove all “bad” nodes from the routing table.

• Remove all nodes that are not part of any routing table.

• Inspect the routing tables to register Network services for its peers.

• Send pings to peers at our configured ping_interval.