Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On 05/15/2014 07:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:50 AM, 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% co

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Mike Hearn
My android wallet is working OK. Yes it isn't great when seeds have temporary availability problems but things are still working. There's a couple of pull reqs outstanding to include hard coded seed peers and getaddr sourced IPs. Once those are finished and merged in there'll be more backup paths.

[Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread David Shares
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25otbt/someone_put_a_virus_signature_in_the_bitcoin/ I just wanted to pass this into the dev list, in case it hasn't been seen yet. I haven't seen anything about it. Thanks, David.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread Christophe Biocca
Here's the relevant github issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4069 On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, David Shares wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25otbt/someone_put_a_virus_signature_in_the_bitcoin/ > > I just wanted to pass this into the dev list, in case it hasn'

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread David Shares
Thanks! Sent from my iPhone > On May 16, 2014, at 11:21 AM, "Christophe Biocca" > wrote: > > Here's the relevant github issue: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4069 > >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, David Shares >> wrote: >> http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25otbt/

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
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 >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Whitlock
Is Peter Todd's server actually up? The Google public DNS resolver at 8.8.8.8 can't resolve testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org either (SERVFAIL). On Friday, 16 May 2014, at 6:34 pm, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > Apparently British Telecom also cannot speak to Peter Todd's server. > > That another

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread 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, Andre

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Alex Kotenko
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 tru

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Golding
> > dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS jun.dashjr.org. but jun.dashjr.org isn't responding to dns queries (as at 18.10 GMT 2014-05-16) that would be a fundamental problem with the dns infrastructure for that domain (an

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Nick Simpson
Luke's server has been having issues with ipv4 routing lately anyway, even ignoring any DNS issues. Nick On May 16, 2014 12:17:17 PM CDT, Rob Golding wrote: >> > dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs > >dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS jun.dashjr.org. >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Corallo
This is very strange...when did you run this test and can anyone else reproduce this? Matt On 05/15/14 11:50, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > testnet-seed.bluematt.me OK (but only returns one node) -- "Accelerat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
For example just now: $ nslookup testnet-seed.bluematt.me Server: 127.0.1.1 Address:127.0.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: testnet-seed.bluematt.mecanonical name = bitcoin-seednode.bluematt.me. bitcoin-seednode.bluematt.mecanonical name = desktopv2.bluematt.me. Name:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Friday, May 16, 2014 5:17:17 PM Rob Golding wrote: > > > dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.orgSERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs > > dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS jun.dashjr.org. > but jun.dashjr.org isn't responding to dns queries (as at 18.10 GMT > 2014-05-16) > > that woul

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread 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.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Alex Kotenko
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 re

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Corallo
Oops, missed the lost On May 16, 2014 3:04:40 PM EDT, Matt Corallo wrote: >Oh, I missed that this was the testnet seed. Yea, that one never got >set >up properly and was just pointing to a static seed node (that is now >down...). The mainnet seed actually works. > >On 05/16/14 19:01, Laszlo Hanye