From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:41:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0Pb3gPFiFVwTowRCZ1duudvXpD_VbE6viJXHb4+3iqKKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ll29m5$r6c$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas@schildbach.de> wrote:
> I'm bringing this issue up again. The current Bitcoin DNS seed
> infrastructure is unstable. I assume this is because of we're using a
> custom DNS implementation which is not 100% compatible. There have been
> bugs in the past, like a case sensitive match for the domain name.
While I agree that the problem seeds should be fixed, it also sounds
like a problem with bitcoinj / other layers, if a malfunctioning seed
is a problem for your app.
Seeds are fundamentally a backup for peer exchange. You are going to
run into problems if you rely 100% on seeds, always.
Further, there are multiple seeds so that we are not impacted if a
couple seeds malfunction or die. All bitcoin apps must take this into
account.
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-15 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-15 11:50 [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-15 17:17 ` Drak
2014-05-15 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-05-15 17:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-16 9:15 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 14:09 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-15 18:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 16:34 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 16:46 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-05-16 16:46 ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-05-16 17:07 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-16 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-17 0:58 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-17 11:39 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-17 12:02 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-17 12:39 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 20:14 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:22 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-19 20:38 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:36 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-19 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20 0:44 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-20 0:50 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-21 9:23 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:03 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-21 11:10 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:26 ` Andreas Schildbach
[not found] ` <537DBC3C.4090907@schildbach.de>
2014-06-11 13:57 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-06-11 14:24 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-20 0:45 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-16 17:17 ` Rob Golding
2014-05-16 17:34 ` Nick Simpson
2014-05-16 21:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 18:53 ` Matt Corallo
2014-05-16 19:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
[not found] ` <8ADB6ABE-371C-4F4A-A003-F6751B01A12F@heliacal.net>
[not found] ` <53766148.1000708@bluematt.me>
2014-05-17 1:06 ` Matt Corallo
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