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does anybody else who's fascinated with #p2p #decentralized #DHT apps remember some ancient p2p network - maybe ed2k, that era - which would fall back to scanning all of ipv4 space to find other nodes if it couldn't connect to any other nodes or bootstrap servers at startup?

I read a paper on this in the 2000s. there was a degree of analysis of how long it'd take the network to re-establish itself given n disconnected nodes at the start. I'm looking for that paper/article.

boosts appreciated!