Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] non-default ports for automatic connections in Bitcoin P2P network

From: Vasil Dimov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 14:30:47 +0100

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.

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