mikedilger on Nostr: Clients can make the mistake of repeatedly trying to connect to a broken/down relay ...
Clients can make the mistake of repeatedly trying to connect to a broken/down relay in a fairly tight loop.
Clients can also make the opposite mistake of avoiding down relays for a significant time so that they don't get into a tight loop, and then due to a network glitch that makes all relays appear to be down, avoid ALL relays for a signficant time hamstringing the client.
Gossip has suffered from both of these fates in the past.
But I think the next release has it sussed, which means users don't have to care about whether these relays are down for a short time, or down for a long time, the client will do a reasonable thing. And that reasonable thing may even become more reasonable over time (e.g. we may add a capped exponential backoff)
BTW: I have no plans to bring back wss://nostr.mikedilger.com/ and the replacement is at wss://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/ (the 444 is critical)
Clients can also make the opposite mistake of avoiding down relays for a significant time so that they don't get into a tight loop, and then due to a network glitch that makes all relays appear to be down, avoid ALL relays for a signficant time hamstringing the client.
Gossip has suffered from both of these fates in the past.
But I think the next release has it sussed, which means users don't have to care about whether these relays are down for a short time, or down for a long time, the client will do a reasonable thing. And that reasonable thing may even become more reasonable over time (e.g. we may add a capped exponential backoff)
BTW: I have no plans to bring back wss://nostr.mikedilger.com/ and the replacement is at wss://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/ (the 444 is critical)
quoting nevent1q…lq2yIf you are using the following relays, beware that many clients will not connect, upload or download data from them. Amethyst Push Notifications will also not connect to them.
- wss://relay.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://ca.relayable.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.btcmp.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.delo.software certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.drss.io Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.drss.io. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:nostr.io, DNS:www.nostr.io
- wss://nostr.libreleaf.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.mikedilger.com Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.mikedilger.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:chorus.mikedilger.com
- wss://nostr.onsats.org Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.onsats.org. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:onsats.org
- wss://nostr.openordex.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.plebchain.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.unknown.place self-signed certificate
- wss://nostr.walletofsatoshi.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.zaprite.io Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.zaprite.io. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:examplewalk.com, DNS:www.examplewalk.com
- wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.zebedee.cloud. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:names-hub.com, DNS:www.names-hub.com
- wss://private.red.gn.net certificate has expired
- wss://relay.nostr.ro certificate has expired
- wss://relay.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://relayable.org certificate has expired