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I'm having trouble finding peers to sync my chain. I get the odd one, so the ports aren't closed. I'm in the UK, and it has just found a peer, but the ip resolves to Turkey - and that is true, and not a Christmas joke. :)

Earn.com say 82 peers.
https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/bitcoind/

And coin dance say 9540 nodes.
https://coin.dance/nodes

So, i'm not sure about if it's a local problem but should be something like that. Maybe restarting the service you get the connections, or manually configure the peers.

You messaged me and said that it's regained connection, but if you ever lose it there's bitnodes: https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/?q=United%20Kingdom

I'm finding (from and old version of the bitcoin wallet by andreas): 208.107.224.202.

sidenote: I can see other peers but they are "non-conformist" as they're running older versions than the 0.17.0 attack.

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As you're using public wifi, you can expect to be banned on a few nodes. Public wifi is sometimes awful.

the network is just too big to just shut down because of holidays! not to mention it is global and not the whole world is celebrating Christmas. on top of that many nodes are hosted on servers (like Amazon) which will never shut down. and if that is not enough there are a lot of businesses that run 24/7/365 that run nodes as long as they are up and running.

if you can't find connection the first assumption should always be that something is wrong on your end, which in this case it is.

simply go on one of these sites that were mentioned in this topic, take an IP address of a well connected node and use the "addnode" RPC command to add it manually and see what happens: https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.16.0/rpc/network/addnode/

or use one of the fallback nodes:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fallback_Nodes#IPv4_Nodes

What would the reason be for people to specifically chose to do this on Xmas? I can understand that people might go on holiday and that they might switch off computers and power to their houses to save on electricity, but they know how important these nodes are to the network, so I doubt that there will be a collective action to do this on Xmas.

Some people run these nodes from their offices and a lot of these businesses close over the festive season. We have not seen anything like this in the previous years, so why should this happen now?

Made me curious about this one so I thought having a look at nodes over Asia would do. One of my mates told me that there are tons of operational nodes at the time of this writing, and it could probably just be on your end that's why you're having trouble finding peers or connecting to one. It would be improbable for nodes to close even though the world is on a holiday. This does not happen before and wouldn't be happening in the future, too.

Not everyone celebrates Christmas. In China and most of Asia 25 December is just another work day so no the bitcoin network will not shut down, even if USA closes shop the bitcoin network will still survive

I'm renting a couple dedicated servers, my nodes are running 24/7, 365 days a year... I can only imagine most nodes that have an uptime of more than 2 weeks have allmost the same setup as mine...
I'm currently posting from my bed (using my phone), but if you haven't found a node you could connect to by tomorrow morning, i'll dig up an ip of one of my machines.