Questions tagged [connection]

Gavin Andresen and James Lopp seem to think that nodes that don't accept inbound connections could be called "leechers" in the same way a torrent leecher takes but doesn't give (or at least they did 5 years ago). I see no reason why leeching or…

net.cpp for example: // use an nUnkBias between 10 (no outgoing connections) and 90 (8 outgoing connections) CAddress addr = addrman.Select(10 + min(nOutbound,8)*10); What does this line of code exactly mean/do?

I would like to clarify how a client connect with peers. I guess the client has a database which looks for possible peers and how long it connected to them. In case of the first connection, introduction to the network, it cannot find anything in its…