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+1. The 'waiting to come online' contacts should time out after certain time (48 hours).
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+* [ ] After that the contact stays in the Pending list of contacts but its status changes to Failed.
+* [ ] recreate the contact at a distance after a time-out and verify that it can be created successfully
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+[Back to Testing](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/testing)
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