I should look up the details again, but yes, I think so...
And that is a good thing, otherwise you would have nodes being down, still getting a lot of blocks, which they then all miss.
On the other hand, it could be a reason for the instability lately...
But there might be a difference between the Hive nodes and the Hive-Engine nodes in that respect.
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