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Peer Exchange

Channels

Pex has one channel. The channel identifier is listed below.

Name Number
PexChannel 0

Message Types

PexRequest

PexRequest is an empty message requesting a list of peers.

EmptyRequest

PexResponse

PexResponse is an list of net addresses provided to a peer to dial.

Name Type Description Field Number
addresses repeated PexAddress List of peer addresses available to dial 1

PexAddress

PexAddress provides needed information for a node to dial a peer. This is in the form of a URL that gets parsed into a NodeAddress. See ParseNodeAddress for more details.

Name Type Description Field Number
url string See golang url 1

Message

Message is a oneof protobuf type. The one of consists of two messages.

Name Type Description Field Number
pex_request PexRequest Empty request asking for a list of addresses to dial 3
pex_response PexResponse List of addresses to dial 4