Quote from: uchalkql on May 07, 2017, 11:34:39 PM

Thanks a lot achow101

well, this is very bad. DNS seeders should not behave like that, because pruned nodes can still help a lot the network.

And you still will-- by relaying blocks to the nodes you connect out to.

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what should happen is that only the nodes that are making the initial download require NODE_NETWORK service.

Right now there is no way to distinguish nodes that can serve blocks near the tip with ones that can't serve blocks at all.

And there are plenty of nodes that can serve everything, so adding more flags hasn't been the highest priority. Though there has been recent progress on that.