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

2022-02-02 Thread Vasil Dimov via bitcoin-dev
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 li

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

2022-01-29 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
## Using non-default ports for automatic connections in Bitcoin P2P network ISPs can block default port 8333 used by Bitcoin nodes. One example: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-September/010798.html While it would still be possible for crawlers and scanners to know a