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Title: what's the difference between a seed node and a delegate node?
Post by: bitandrew on October 25, 2014, 07:44:26 am

what's the difference between a seed node and a delegate node?

the seed node and delegate node could be running on one server? and why?

thank you all!

Title: Re: what's the difference between a seed node and a delegate node?
Post by: HackFisher on October 25, 2014, 08:04:16 am

The seed nodes are the nodes new clients are trying to connect to when they first get started.

The delegate nodes is the nodes in the DPOS, meaning those scheduled producing blocks nodes.

Technically, they could be running on the same server, or even in the same node. But that's a bad practice, it would be safer to put the delegates behind a firewall where others can not directly connect to, while seed nodes required be public waiting others connect to it.