Prayank, thanks for taking the time to inform the wider community. I just want to clarify to avoid confusion that this is about whether to open automatic outgoing connections to a peer at addr:port if port is not 8333. Right now, Bitcoin Core has a very very strong preference towards peers that listen on port 8333. So, if one listens on !=8333 then he is practically not getting any incoming connections (from Bitcoin Core). See the PR for details and justifications: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23542. -- Vasil Dimov gro.DSBeerF@dv % Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. -- Winston Churchill