A bootstrapping node, also known as a rendezvous host,[1] is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network.[2][3] Bootstrapping nodes are predominantly found in decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks because of the dynamically changing identities and configurations of member nodes in these networks.
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