Add PeerFinder README doc

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# PeerFinder
The PeerFinder module has these responsibilities:
- Maintain a set of addresses suitable for bootstrapping into the overlay.
- Send and receive protocol messages for peer address discovery.
- Provide network addresses to other peers that need them.
- Maintain connections to the configured set of fixed peers.
- Track and manage peer connection slots.
## Description
## Terms
<table>
<tr>
<td>Bootstrap</td>
<td>The process by which a Ripple peer obtains the initial set of
connections into the Ripple payment network overlay.
</td></tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Overlay</td>
<td>The connected graph of Ripple peers, overlaid on the public Internet.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Peer</td>
<td>A network server running the **rippled** daemon.
</td>
</tr>
</table>