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What are all possible ways for peer discovery in a diameter node?

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What are all possible ways for peer discovery in a diameter node?
posted Sep 12, 2014 by Neelam

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This article explains somewhat
http://diameter-protocol.blogspot.in/2011/03/diameter-peer-discovery.html

answer Dec 27, 2014 by Saurabh Srivastava
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