Ok, what do I need to do? How do I host a testnet seed myself? Best regards, Alex Kotenko 2014-05-16 23:02 GMT+01:00 Jeff Garzik : > There are only two testnet seeds listed in bitcoind, and one of them > returns SERVFAIL (testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org) and the other > just returns one A record (testnet-seed.bluematt.me). No idea what > seeds bitcoinj uses. > > If you are going to depend on testnet, especially for an important > demo... contribute to the infrastructure! This stuff doesn't just fix > itself for free. > > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Alex Kotenko wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > > > Just wanted to let you know that Andreas' testnet Bitcoin Wallet doesn't > > work because of fail in the peer discovery, and this caused us problems > as > > we cannot properly demonstrate my XBTerminal POS on the Bitcoin > Conference. > > > > Right now I'm booting up an own full node that I will set as trusted > peer in > > the Wallet settings, hopefully this will work. However this DNS discovery > > problem is really a problem, even for testnet. Btw, I had problems > firing up > > the full bitcoind node also, of the same reason - discovery failed. I > had to > > ask Andreas to paste me his node list to manually seed the nodelist. > > > > So I've set up and will run a well connected testnet node, as we need it > for > > the XBTerminal. > > Please let me know if I can somehow help to fix the DNS discovery issue > > also. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Alex Kotenko > > > > > > 2014-05-16 17:46 GMT+01:00 Laszlo Hanyecz : > > > >> It looks like it might be firewalled, probably just need to fix the ACL > in > >> EC2. > >> > >> -Laszlo > >> > >> On May 16, 2014, at 4:34 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. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> >> "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For > FREE > >> >> Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. > >> >> Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform > >> >> available > >> >> Simple to use. 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