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| author | super3 <me@super3.org> | 2013-10-15 23:14:30 -0400 |
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| committer | super3 <me@super3.org> | 2013-10-15 23:37:30 -0400 |
| commit | 27e2d8bfb5678e79d956b9f1aa50c1b14177d748 (patch) | |
| tree | a5eb2108ca9cc82af6f5e393608db80a456544cf /contrib/seeds/README.md | |
| parent | dd9bd863cfc52c17753c75a983ea49870e9b1c53 (diff) | |
Finished /Contrib Index. Standardized READMEs.
File and Link Fix.
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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). |