-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I think you too should ask yourself why you are putting so much effort into optimizing a centralized service, the DNS seeds, rather than putting effort into optimizing the P2P peer discovery instead. DNS seeds are a necessary evil, one that shouldn't be promoted with additional features beyond simply obtaining your initial set of peers.
After all Peter, just like you have implemented alternate block header distribution over twitter, in the future we should have many different means of peer discovery. Right now we have DNS seeds, a fixed list, and IRC discovery that does not work because the servers it was pointed too no longer exist. Not a good place to be. Some random ideas: search engines - search for "bitcoin seed address" or something and try IP's found (twitter is similar) ipv4 scanning - not exactly friendly, but the density of bitcoin nodes is probably getting to the point where a brute force search is feasible anycast peers - would work best with UDP probably, who has the resources to set this up? It is probably not worth the effort implementing the above immediately, but it is worth the effort to ensure that we don't make the DNS seed system so complex and sophisticated that we depend on it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRhU44AAoJEEWCsU4mNhiPtssH/1yb/FZRRaZpr3CwkoaOhbhu pxfRNWgOEOL/mlWKTVgp2812qEnY9DySpJ5DJMjx7/GhSvOtnteza5ts4+pbuWhd l6E1R9zAYxX+VOiBxcBtoZNEXDcS+CjMumuBH5S1v+L5jEntOWS9G8DKasjD2WAQ DzX8YbOuzIOqasEbr5Hpr9Vfl7ZtW/+q/sPhQ1q3a7n7MaaIZrZicisJw3z7T7+0 T0yK8vUdYfstTjs0zLzfI5PW9+TG5T0kvj0kXSCjnK723Mfl7SXp6UZx6yebBi6q tcTVOPo4hfBWk8XryZxaSNCkDYY6kryy5cb2V+BojVfqLWVKgR3pdZqXqnEKNLo= =0XFF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
