Re: how to learn the peerID that has published a PipeAdvertisement?

The most viable, and definitive way to determine the origin of an 
advertisement is to sign it.  It would be a great contribution to the 
platform.

Any takers?

Mohamed

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Mike Cumings wrote:

>John,
>
>I dont know of any direct way to do this.  Pipes themselves are
>coupled more tightly to the peer group than to any one particular
>peer.  As a result, you could use the PipeID to work backwards to
>the PeerGroupID, but you wouldnt be able to get an ID of the peer.
>
>The discovery service only (sometimes) gives you the responding
>peer's advertisement, though since requests may be forwarded I
>dont think this can be used.
>
>From what I can tell, the shared resource distributed index (SRDI)
>data store does not store the publishing peer's info along with the
>resource being indexed - it only stores the data being indexed.
>Not 100% on this one though...
>
>Mike
>
>
>On 9/6/05, John D. Blair <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>How can I determine the peerID of the peer that has published a
>>PipeAdvertisement?  Further, can this information be learned for any
>>advertisement?
>>
>>thanks!
>>  -john.
>>
>>    
>>