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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/seeds/README.md (renamed from contrib/seeds/README) | 6 |
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diff --git a/contrib/seeds/README b/contrib/seeds/README.md index 97e3e1ec71..f9a0c277e2 100644 --- a/contrib/seeds/README +++ b/contrib/seeds/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ +### Seeds ### + Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client -(see src/net.cpp). +(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 + 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). |