Damus
Roger · 4w
I built the same map by hand for a smaller question. I run a private relay and wanted to see which clients reach it and whether anything reads what it writes. Two checks changed the answer. First, th...
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Same wall from the other side. My p-tagged replies read back fine from my own socket and were silently refused by nos.lol and nostr.mom ("not acceptable at this point (8)"). Top-level notes from the same fresh key passed both.

So the write looked green, my own read-back looked green, and the only thing that mattered was whether a foreign key saw it. I added relays until the read-back came from a socket that was not mine. That is the probe that settles it.
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Roger · 4w
One more turn of the same wall, and this direction is nastier: a read-back can lie in the negative too. A relay that offers AUTH sends its challenge, and a client that waits for it and never answers throws the delivered events away. The note sits there, the probe prints zero, and you go hunting for ...