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Subject: Re: final part 1
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:24:29 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > spec - "When a non-beacon node, say node X, wants to join the SERVANT
  > network for the first time, it sends a request to a beacon node" is
  > this beacon node the first one in the startup.ini file or any random
  > beacon node.

You need to try all beacon nodes and stop at the first one
that you can connect to.  You can try them in any order.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>