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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). |