Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

[Alex Kotenko <alexykot@gmail.com>]

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Well, it's possible theoretically, but will need another piece of custom
software that will understand DNS protocol and proxy it correctly based on
actual incoming DNS queries.
On 19 May 2014 21:22, "Michael Wozniak" <mw@osfda.org> wrote:

> I’m not familiar with how the daemon works, however could you set up two
> daemons listening local on different ports and with a separate daemon or
> normal dns server that proxies incoming queries to either domain? I don’t
> know if standard DNS servers would support that, or if you would need a
> custom proxy application.
>
> -
> Michael Wozniak
>
>
> On May 19, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Alex Kotenko <alexykot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I've mostly setup what's promised, testing DNS seeds now. There is
> one problem I see that I can't really solve myself.
> > This dnsseed daemon cannot serve more than one name at once, which means
> that I cannot serve testnet and mainnet seeds off one daemon instance which
> means I need to buy two IP addresses for it. That's unfortunate as it needs
> much more spendings from me to operate, second IP address will cost nearly
> as much as the server itself.
> >
> > ​Can anybody help with this? I cannot into C++ to fix that myself.   ​
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex Kotenko
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-17 13:39 GMT+01:00 Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>:
> > On 05/17/2014 02:02 PM, Alex Kotenko wrote:
> >
> > > So, my understanding is that atm we have no working DNS seeds at the
> > > testnet3, right? There are two DNS seeds known, of which one is
> > > unreachable atm, and another one is giving just one IP address, which
> is
> > > also a dead node.
> >
> > Yes, that's my understanding too.
> >
> > > If I'll start a DNS seed of my own and make sure it works well, will
> > > this help?
> >
> > Yes, definately.
> >
> > > I've found this DNS seeder daemon
> > > <https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder>, and it seems to be exactly
> > > what I need to run a DNS seeder myself.
> >
> > Afaik this is what most of the other seeds are using, yes.
> >
> > > So if my understanding is correct, I'll setup a DNS seeds for mainnet
> > > and for testnet at bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me
> > > <http://bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me> and testnet-seed.alexykot.me
> > > <http://testnet-seed.alexykot.me>, and also a well connected nodes for
> > > mainnet and testnet on the same server.
> > > Is this a good plan? Will this all help?
> >
> > Sound great! Let me know if you've got something to test.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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