p2p/discover: improved node revalidation #2035
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Node discovery periodically revalidates the nodes in its table by sending PING, checking if they are still alive. I recently noticed some issues with the implementation of this process, which can cause strange results such as nodes dropping unexpectedly, certain nodes not getting revalidated often enough, and bad results being returned to incoming FINDNODE queries.
In this change, the revalidation process is improved with the following logic:
I am also adding a debug API endpoint to dump the node table content.