Hello, I wanted to know if it was possible to publish an IPNS entry from multiple hosts at the same time? I.e what we want to do is generate an IPNS key. Then copy that same key to multiple nodes. Then do an “ipns name publish --key=mykey $HASH” on multiple active nodes at the same time. Doable? I…

Doable. Check the other thead: [image] Can multiple nodes share the same peer id? Help Duplicate of node identity is probably a bad idea, but if you reframe the question into “can I publish to the same IPNS key from multiple boxes?”, then it makes more sense. If you use d…

I read that thread but it wasn’t clear whether you could publish from two different nodes simultaneously. I am aware you can publish the same key from two different nodes at different times (e.g. the blog update example that was given in the thread) but I’m talking about for resiliency reasons publi…

I had to try something like this before — and I can say that… value that published later usually just «overwrites» the earlier ones even when publishing from different nodes. As you said, it’s pretty difficult to publish two names at the exactly same time! But sometimes resolving this name (es…

Hey Jesse, I don’t think it makes sense to publish the same Cid simultaneously from two hosts. Each publish operation gets broadcast, so doing it twice doesn’t really add anything. And even if one publish operation gets lost, you could just repeat it later from the same host. So: Unless the networ…

Publish IPNS from multiple nodes simultaneously?

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lidel January 21, 2018, 9:29pm 2

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Publish IPNS from multiple nodes simultaneously?

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