We've established a few basic rules for the DNS seeds as used in the
Bitcoin Core software. See below.
If you run one of the DNS seeds please reply to this and let us know
whether you agree to these terms. if you think some requirements are
unreasonable let us know too. If we haven't heard from
How about research projects into node distribution? Specifically I
wonder whether the collection and analysis of DNS query origin is
allowed when queries are anonymized and aggregated. This would prevent
the identification of a single user, which I assume is the rationale
for point 4.
Other than
I'm working on a BIP which needs to modify the block acceptance rules. I
have two ways of testing:
- Mining blocks on the testnet
- Creating test cases for Bitcoin Core.
I want to create those test cases for block.CheckBlock(), which involves
verifying 100 dynamically generated blocks.
What is
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote:
Might be worthwhile to also write an Expectations for DNSSeed users
outlining what security properties the seeds actually have, and what
kind of attacks are possible.
Agreed. I've seen some amount of use of dnsseeds which
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