Alexandru Vasile
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The authority-discovery mechanism has implemented a few exponential timers for: - publishing the authority records - goes from 2 seconds (when freshly booted) to 1 hour if the node is long-running - set to 1 hour after successfully publishing the authority record - discovering other authority records - goes from 2 seconds (when freshly booted) to 10 minutes if the node is long-running This PR resets the exponential publishing and discovery interval to defaults ensuring that long-running nodes: - will retry publishing the authority records as aggressively as freshly booted nodes - Currently, if a long-running node fails to publish the DHT record when the keys change (ie DhtEvent::ValuePutFailed), it will only retry after 1 hour - will rediscover other authorities faster (since there is a chance that other authority keys changed) The subp2p-explorer has difficulties discovering the authorities when the authority set changes in the first few hours. This might be entirely due to the recursive nature of the DHT and the needed time to propagate the records. However, there is a small chance that the authority publishing failed and is only retried in 1h. Let me know if this makes sense 🙏 cc @paritytech/networking --------- Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <alexandru.vasile@parity.io> Co-authored-by: Dmitry Markin <dmitry@markin.tech>
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