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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2013-10-16 07:17:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2013-10-16 07:17:00 -0700 |
| commit | 0487cc4137a7a145a7030d65bc6320a01aaa9525 (patch) | |
| tree | eed615e519be0c69e96a80d7ed67a68edfd2e37e /contrib/seeds/README.md | |
| parent | a2bb571c4f03a7763f9170de66c59b6bd25116e2 (diff) | |
| parent | 27e2d8bfb5678e79d956b9f1aa50c1b14177d748 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-0487cc4137a7a145a7030d65bc6320a01aaa9525.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #3098 from super3/master
Finished /Contrib Index. Standardized READMEs.
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diff --git a/contrib/seeds/README.md b/contrib/seeds/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f9a0c277e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/seeds/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +### Seeds ### + +Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client +(see [src/net.cpp](/src/net.cpp)). + +The 600 seeds compiled into the 0.8 release were created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this: + + curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt | head -1000 | makeseeds.py + +The input to makeseeds.py is assumed to be approximately sorted from most-reliable to least-reliable, +with IP:port first on each line (lines that don't match IPv4:port are ignored). |