Starting from bitcoinj, I have plenty of ways to publish DNS. Why sort them by version? Ordering from highest to lowest? how about publishing addresses under version.example.com if you version has a perfrence? -rick On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > There's no project currently :-) > > Starting from Matts code is probably the way to go. It's written in PHP. > Alternatively, you could write a Java app for it, as there are drop-in DNS > serving libraries you could link with BitCoinJ+sqlite. It probably wouldn't > be that hard. You'd want to sort nodes by version, how long they've been > observed to exist, the last polling time, etc. > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Rick Wesson > wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> I think I can contribute to your DNS seeding project. Could you help >> define long-lived peers? >> >> -rick >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> >>> This is expected to happen from time to time of course as it's inherently >>> racy, but there are a *lot* of bad nodes appearing in the DNS seeds. >>> >>> $ nmap -oG /tmp/x -p 8333 `dig +short bitseed.bitcoin.org.uk >>> dnsseed.bluematt.me bitseed.xf2.org` >>> ... >>> Nmap done: 48 IP addresses (25 hosts up) scanned in 9.80 seconds >>> >>> $ grep -c 'closed' /tmp/x >>> 6 >>> >>> So of 48 IPs returned only 19 are actually usable. This is slowing down >>> peer bringup for the Android apps, which don't currently save the addresses >>> of last-used peers (yes, I know we should fix this). >>> >>> I was talking to a friend a few days ago about Bitcoin, he seemed >>> interested. I'm hoping he might take on DNS seeding as a project. A custom >>> DNS server that watches the network to find long-lived peers that run the >>> latest version would be helpful for resolving this kind of thing. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA >>> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. >>> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. >>> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bitcoin-development mailing list >>> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >>> >>> >> >