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Wladimir J. van der Laan 4dfac2c950 Update seeds tooling to Python 3 All the other tooling scripts require Python 3, it makes sense to do so here too. Also document the dependency on python3-dnspython.		2017-02-10 10:29:09 +01:00
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generate-seeds.py	Update seeds tooling to Python 3	2017-02-10 10:29:09 +01:00
makeseeds.py	Update seeds tooling to Python 3	2017-02-10 10:29:09 +01:00
nodes_main.txt	net: Hardcoded seeds update January 2016	2016-01-25 16:14:14 +01:00
nodes_test.txt	contrib: Improvements to hardcoded seeds scripts	2015-06-25 08:05:33 +02:00
README.md	Update seeds tooling to Python 3	2017-02-10 10:29:09 +01:00

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).

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

curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt > 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