March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
This service is used to provide a network map in the form of a document of all nodes on the network. This service publishes IP addresses, identity certificates, and a list of services offered by nodes. All nodes announce their presence by registering to this service when they first startup, and when a connection request is received by a node, the presence of the requesting node is checked on the network map first. Put another way, this service resolves the identities of the participants to physical nodes.
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