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From: Drak <drak@zikula.org>
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 18:17:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANAnSg24Hhvb0T5Cu5yw=hbeF95mbDeVqLfY-5idH7zT95Sp0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ll29m5$r6c$1@ger.gmane.org>

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I am sure the failure here is probably more mundane like a a service not
restarted, or not on auto restart when server is rebooted and such like.
The dns seeder works pretty efficiently in my experience. Maybe we need
more seeders and to include the ability for zone transfers so existing
seeders can spread their records to multiple servers running standard DNS
servers like bind etc.


On 15 May 2014 12:50, 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.
>
> Current state (seeds taken from bitcoinj):
>
> mainnet:
>
> seed.bitcoin.sipa.be                    OK
> dnsseed.bluematt.me                     OK
> dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org              SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs
> seed.bitcoinstats.com                   OK
>
> testnet:
>
> testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org      SERVFAIL, just from Telefonica
> testnet-seed.bluematt.me                OK (but only returns one node)
>
> Note: Telefonica is one of Europe's largest ISPs.
>
> I would try to improve DNS myself, but I'm not capable of writing C. My
> "fix" would be to reimplement everything in Java -- I doubt you guys
> would be happy with that.
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-15 17:24 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 [this message]
2014-05-15 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik
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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