From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
To: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:46:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13362447.xaWDMWIYTF@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ll5ems$6pt$1@ger.gmane.org>
Is Peter Todd's server actually up? The Google public DNS resolver at 8.8.8.8 can't resolve testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org either (SERVFAIL).
On Friday, 16 May 2014, at 6:34 pm, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Apparently British Telecom also cannot speak to Peter Todd's server.
>
> That another very large ISP in Europe.
>
>
> On 05/15/2014 01:50 PM, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> > I'm bringing this issue up again. The current Bitcoin DNS seed
> > infrastructure is unstable. I assume this is because of we're using a
> > custom DNS implementation which is not 100% compatible. There have been
> > bugs in the past, like a case sensitive match for the domain name.
> >
> > Current state (seeds taken from bitcoinj):
> >
> > mainnet:
> >
> > seed.bitcoin.sipa.be OK
> > dnsseed.bluematt.me OK
> > dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs
> > seed.bitcoinstats.com OK
> >
> > testnet:
> >
> > testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org SERVFAIL, just from Telefonica
> > testnet-seed.bluematt.me OK (but only returns one node)
> >
> > Note: Telefonica is one of Europe's largest ISPs.
> >
> > I would try to improve DNS myself, but I'm not capable of writing C. My
> > "fix" would be to reimplement everything in Java -- I doubt you guys
> > would be happy with that.
> >
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-15 11:50 Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-15 17:17 ` Drak
2014-05-15 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-15 17:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-16 9:15 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 14:09 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-15 18:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 16:34 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-16 16:46 ` Matt Whitlock [this message]
2014-05-16 16:46 ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-05-16 17:07 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-16 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-17 0:58 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-17 11:39 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-17 12:02 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-17 12:39 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 20:14 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:22 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-19 20:38 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 20:36 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-19 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20 0:44 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-20 0:50 ` Robert McKay
2014-05-21 9:23 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:03 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-21 11:10 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-21 11:26 ` Andreas Schildbach
[not found] ` <537DBC3C.4090907@schildbach.de>
2014-06-11 13:57 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-06-11 14:24 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-20 0:45 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-05-16 17:17 ` Rob Golding
2014-05-16 17:34 ` Nick Simpson
2014-05-16 21:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-05-16 18:53 ` Matt Corallo
2014-05-16 19:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
[not found] ` <8ADB6ABE-371C-4F4A-A003-F6751B01A12F@heliacal.net>
[not found] ` <53766148.1000708@bluematt.me>
2014-05-17 1:06 ` Matt Corallo
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