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diff --git a/contrib/seeds/README b/contrib/seeds/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..97e3e1ec71 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/seeds/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client +(see 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). |