bitcoin/contrib/seeds
laanwj 2f629f8089 contrib: Remove suspicious hosts list from makeseeds
I have some qualms with maintaining a suspicious hosts list as part as
the repository. But also, it's stale and irrelevant. I've checked the
entire list and none of them is connectable. Only one still appars in
`nodes_main.txt` but with low uptime and an old subversion string so it
wouldn't be picked in the first place.
2022-04-15 14:12:15 +02:00
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.gitignore contrib: Add new versions to makeseeds.py and update gitignore 2020-10-25 14:08:33 +01:00
generate-seeds.py contrib: recognize CJDNS seeds as such 2021-11-03 14:58:55 +01:00
makeseeds.py contrib: Remove suspicious hosts list from makeseeds 2022-04-15 14:12:15 +02:00
nodes_main.txt net: Update hardcoded seeds for 23.x 2022-02-22 15:15:27 +01:00
nodes_main_manual.txt net: Update hardcoded seeds for 23.x 2022-02-22 15:15:27 +01:00
nodes_test.txt contrib: add torv3 seed nodes for testnet, drop v2 ones 2021-05-25 16:07:56 +02:00
README.md contrib: make-seeds updates for 23.x 2022-02-22 15:04:46 +01:00

Seeds

Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client (see src/chainparamsseeds.h and other utilities in contrib/seeds).

Be sure to update PATTERN_AGENT in makeseeds.py to include the current version, and remove old versions as necessary (at a minimum when GetDesirableServiceFlags changes its default return value, as those are the services which seeds are added to addrman with).

The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:

curl https://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_main.txt
python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
cat nodes_main_manual.txt >> nodes_main.txt
python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h

Dependencies

Ubuntu, Debian:

sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython

and/or for other operating systems:

pip install dnspython

See https://dnspython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html for more information.