hyperledger-fabricgossip

block dissemination in fabric

I'm following Gossip protocol.

For dissemination of new blocks, the leader peer on the channel pulls the data from the ordering service and initiates gossip dissemination to peers.

Is the leader peer only leader of its own organization or leader of all the peers?

If each organization has its own leader, will they pull new blocks from different Orderer Node whose ledger is different from one another? I mean OrdererLedger is different from one other with the SIGNATURES in block metadata.

Solution

  • Is the leader peer only leader of its own organization or leader of all the peers?

    Only of its own organization

    If each organization has its own leader, will they pull new blocks from different Orderer Node whose ledger is different from one another? I mean OrdererLedger is different from one other with the SIGNATURES in block metadata.

    Yes that is correct. Each orderer has its own ledger but the order of the transactions (and the transactions themselves) are the same. However - the signatures are not the same signatures (they are created by each orderer node). Why is that a problem though?