What event should be awaited before sending a content discovery request?

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Hi all,

As far as I have understood from my experimentations,
when a new node reaches an established network, and queries for some content,
it has to wait for some time before doing so,
otherwise the query fails in a couple of milliseconds.

My question is:
is there a formal event (less empirical than just await for some time)
that we could rely on before sending the first content discovery request?

Thanks

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Let me known if that could be interesting that I give a report of my experimentations in this thread.

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I’ve tried to read through libp2p logs, but I can’t figure out the mechanics from it.

I can see log lines telling that GET_PROVIDERS messages are sent from one node and received on other nodes, but I see no log lines for info returned that could explain why certain queries fail and others succeed.

I see also a couple of ERR_MPLEX_STREAM_RESET errors, but those don’t seem to make my queries fail. Is this the regular behaviour?

Debug filter used : libp2p*,-libp2p:mplex*,-libp2p:noise*

Thanks for any help.

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Experimentations tracked in a dedicated repo: GitHub - Alexis-ROYER/js-libp2p-content-routing-delay: Test project - investigations on js-libp2p content routing delays

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See js-libp2p#950.