Adding Orphan Block

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  1. Dyrk

    Dyrk Sr. Member
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    What does this mean and why has it happened?

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    16:38:25 2016-03-17 [INF] CHAN: Adding orphan block 00000000000037ffc699f55e8a0e42b49c172a3d61998b01d3fb5fc9819f834c with parent 0000000000003ef06a2e60a4e8cf9ab31185109b1ff1b6a175475afe553d867c
    
     
  2. davecgh

    davecgh Hero Member
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    It just means a block that you don't have the parent for was received. It pretty much always happens when restarting dcrd due to the way the sync works. You're still syncing up to the latest block, but the remote peer, that is ahead of you, send a notification that a new block showed up, one for which you don't have the parent yet.

    Rather than ignoring it, once you're sufficiently close to being synced, it essentially saves them for later so once you do have the parent blocks those newer block automatically get connected.
     
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