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this should br straightforward, the identity file contains just the bytes of the private key. Should we create a utility to take it from the ipfs datastore? Or is there...

sure, care for a pr?

The scope of the lock is too long unfortunately, and it may be held for an arbitrary time period. So we need a better solution. On Sun, Oct 17, 2021,...

@aschmahmann thoughts on the matter?

I don't think we should hang the goroutine -- immediately sending down the channel seems like the sanest option.

this will be a problem for ipns, as the original publisher may be offline. cc @Stebalien

provider records are already collected after 24hs, and changing that would be a difficult change to deploy.

Wouldn't this end up connecting all querying peers to the originating peer? That's probably undesirable.

I totally agree but that's a little too hard with the current dialer, it will need a whole bunch of refactorings... which is what we are doing in dialer v2....

We can wait a week, there is no imminent ipfs release. But I fear v2 won't be ready by then either :p