Add facility to disable peer discovery

and/or self announcement.
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Neil Booth
2017-02-19 14:50:13 +09:00
parent 8fa8615ccf
commit 32666ce0dc
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@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ raise them.
functioning Electrum clients by default will send pings roughly
every 60 seconds.
TOR
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PEER DISCOVERY
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In response to the `server.peers.subscribe` RPC call, ElectrumX will
only return peer servers that is has recently connected to and
@@ -229,12 +229,36 @@ peers it will fall back to a hard-coded list.
To give incoming clients a full range of onion servers you will need
to be running a Tor proxy for ElectrumX to use.
ElectrumX will perform peer-discovery by default and announce itself
to other peers. If your server is private you may wish to disable
some of this.
* **PEER_DISCOVERY**
If not defined, or non-empty, ElectrumX will occasionally connect to
and verify its network of peer servers. Set to empty to disable
peer discovery.
* **PEER_ANNOUNCE**
Set this environemnt variable to empty to disable announcing itself.
If not defined, or non-empty, ElectrumX will announce itself to
peers.
If peer discovery is disabled this environment variable has no
effect, because ElectrumX only announces itself to peers when doing
peer discovery if it notices it is not present in the peer's
returned list.
* **TOR_PROXY_HOST**
The host where the Tor proxy is running. Defaults to *127.0.0.1*.
The host where your Tor proxy is running. Defaults to *127.0.0.1*.
If you use a hostname here rather than an IP address, you must have
Python version >= 3.5.3, Python 3.5.2 will **not** work.
If you are not running a Tor proxy just leave this environment
variable undefined.
* **TOR_PROXY_PORT**
The port on which the Tor proxy is running. If not set, ElectrumX