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does anybody else who's fascinated with apps remember some ancient p2p network - maybe ed2k, that era - which would fall back to scanning all of ipv4 space to find other nodes if it couldn't connect to any other nodes or bootstrap servers at startup?

I read a paper on this in the 2000s. there was a degree of analysis of how long it'd take the network to re-establish itself given n disconnected nodes at the start. I'm looking for that paper/article.

boosts appreciated!

@deutrino That sounds like something a particular GNUtella client might do but not in the protocol itself.
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@sun eDonkey2000 and Gnutella are my two main suspects, based on very hazy memories from the mid-2000s of reading deep dives on P2P implementations

@deutrino I am betting yu will find that it's a client-specific innovation of just one program.

@sun noooo :( but maybe.

last I knew, ed2k turned into a zombie p2p network for botnet C&C, so maybe more than one client :)

@deutrino the reason I suspect gnutella is it did a lot of things for network discovery and nat punching in later versions so that seems like the kind of thing it would do. it was popular inside college universities so it wuld make sense to scan local network