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Wladimir J. van der Laan 3314d87966 contrib: makeseeds: Factor out ASN lookup		2019-10-01 11:39:14 +02:00
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generate-seeds.py	test/contrib: Fix invalid escapes in regex strings	2019-09-03 14:38:38 -04:00
makeseeds.py	contrib: makeseeds: Factor out ASN lookup	2019-10-01 11:39:14 +02:00
nodes_main.txt	net: Update hardcoded seeds	2018-08-13 13:57:15 +02:00
nodes_test.txt	contrib: Improvements to hardcoded seeds scripts	2015-06-25 08:05:33 +02:00
README.md	contrib: fix GetDesirableServiceFlags typo in seeds/README.md	2018-08-13 15:11:24 +02:00

README.md

Seeds

Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client (see src/chainparamsseeds.h and other utilities in contrib/seeds).

Be sure to update PATTERN_AGENT in makeseeds.py to include the current version, and remove old versions as necessary (at a minimum when GetDesirableServiceFlags changes its default return value, as those are the services which seeds are added to addrman with).

The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:

curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_main.txt
python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h

Dependencies

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython