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Wladimir J. van der Laan e9976d20f1 Merge #10495 : contrib: Update location of seeds.txt ac9cd95 contrib: Update location of seeds.txt (Wladimir J. van der Laan) Tree-SHA512: c12a75787ba87f03707c21731da083b466762a7e0af9ca501107695ea1074025907cc24805c7c87f4a66daa7f4f13e574da16be1681e61deaf1acbd72176b3ff		2018-01-26 12:59:29 +01:00
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generate-seeds.py	Merge #9736 : Pre-0.14.0 hardcoded seeds update	2018-01-23 09:24:28 +01:00
makeseeds.py	Merge #9736 : Pre-0.14.0 hardcoded seeds update	2018-01-23 09:24:28 +01:00
nodes_main.txt	Merge #9736 : Pre-0.14.0 hardcoded seeds update	2018-01-23 09:24:28 +01:00
nodes_test.txt	contrib: Improvements to hardcoded seeds scripts	2015-06-25 08:05:33 +02:00
README.md	Merge #10495 : contrib: Update location of seeds.txt	2018-01-26 12:59:29 +01:00

README.md

Seeds

Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client (see src/chainparamsseeds.h and other utilities in contrib/seeds).

Be sure to update PATTERN_AGENT in makeseeds.py to include the current version, and remove old versions as necessary.

The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:

curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_main.txt
python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h

Dependencies

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython