On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Dillon <john.dillon...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
Let's not confuse bootstrapping with overall peer discovery. Peer exchange between P2P nodes is the primary and best method of obtaining free peers. Obviously you need to bootstrap into that, though. DNS seed and fixed list are those bootstrap methods (IRC code was deleted), but are only used to limp along until you can contact a real P2P node, at which point peer discovery truly begins. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgar...@exmulti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
