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Wladimir J. van der Laan ac9cd953d9 contrib: Update location of seeds.txt Update the steps for updating the hardcoded seed nodes to point to the new filename on @sipa's server, and add command to decompress it. Ref: #10163		2017-06-01 12:38:01 +02:00
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generate-seeds.py	Update seeds tooling to Python 3	2017-02-10 10:29:09 +01:00
makeseeds.py	contrib/seeds: Update PATTERN_AGENT	2017-02-10 11:04:33 +01:00
nodes_main.txt	Pre-0.14.0 hardcoded seeds update	2017-02-10 11:04:34 +01:00
nodes_test.txt	contrib: Improvements to hardcoded seeds scripts	2015-06-25 08:05:33 +02:00
README.md	contrib: Update location of seeds.txt	2017-06-01 12:38:01 +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.

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