peer network with different startingheight value

+2 votes

Dear Team,

I have a network composed by 4 nodes, one seed node and other 3 nodes connected to it. I checked they are in sync with the <getblockchaininfo> command. All of them show the same values for the following parameters:
"blocks" : 477,
"headers" : 477,
"bestblockhash" : "00110f363f98ff344e93d5491b79644783abd2f58a7b257540be7c416596a562"

However, if I log in in the seed node and I send the command <getpeerinfo>, I get the list of the 3 peers with a different value for one of them:
[
    {
        "id" : 1,
        "startingheight" : 462,
        "banscore" : 0,
        "synced_headers" : 476,
        "synced_blocks" : 476,

    },
    {
        "id" : 3,
        "startingheight" : 477,
        "banscore" : 0,
        "synced_headers" : 477,
        "synced_blocks" : 477,
    },
    {
        "id" : 4,
        "startingheight" : 477,
        "banscore" : 0,
        "synced_headers" : 477,
        "synced_blocks" : 477,
    }
]

 

Could you kindly help me in understanding? Thanks, Fabio
 

asked Sep 28, 2019 by fabio

1 Answer

0 votes

The startingheight is just a number given by each node when it is first connected to, reporting how many blocks it currently has in its chain. So there's no reason to worry about different values.

answered Sep 28, 2019 by MultiChain
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