METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING PEER FAULTS IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK

摘要

A method and apparatus for detecting and handling peer faults in a Peer-to-Peernetwork are disclosed. The method for detecting peer faults includes:receiving adiagnosis request message; detecting whether a peer is faulty according to apreset faultdetection method; and sending a diagnosis response message to a source peerthatconstructs the diagnosis request message or a peer specified by the diagnosisrequestmessage, where the diagnosis response message carries a detection result, andthedetection result carries information about the faulty peer if the peer isdetected as faulty.Through the technical solution under the present invention, the faults of thepeers on theforwarding path in the P2P network can be detected.