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From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 13:39:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ll7hps$8gs$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDj+BY2jEL6-NwGdrh3wdcmjW_7tEDDxmyiP6woOxCg8bMQKw@mail.gmail.com>

I think the best way to contribute to the infrastructure is actually
what we're doing: Test the current infrastructure and point out where it
is not working. Trying to find solutions for problems.

There is nothing gained by throwing additional hardware at a problem if
the problem itself isn't understood well.


On 05/17/2014 02:58 AM, Alex Kotenko wrote:
> Ok, what do I need to do? How do I host a testnet seed myself? 
> 
> Best regards, 
> Alex Kotenko
> 
> 
> 2014-05-16 23:02 GMT+01:00 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com
> <mailto:jgarzik@bitpay.com>>:
> 
>     There are only two testnet seeds listed in bitcoind, and one of them
>     returns SERVFAIL (testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org
>     <http://testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org>) and the other
>     just returns one A record (testnet-seed.bluematt.me
>     <http://testnet-seed.bluematt.me>).  No idea what
>     seeds bitcoinj uses.
> 
>     If you are going to depend on testnet, especially for an important
>     demo... contribute to the infrastructure!  This stuff doesn't just fix
>     itself for free.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-17 11:40 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
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 [this message]
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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