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Title: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: TierNolan on June 29, 2011, 08:30:35 PM The standard client connects to irc.lfnet.org for discovery. Some ISPs disable IRC on the default port, it would be helpful to be able to set a different port in bitcoin.conf.
Is lfnet controlled by the dev team? If so, could more than 1 port be made available for connecting. Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: WakiMiko on June 29, 2011, 10:10:15 PM irc.lfnet.org listens on ports 6667 to 6669 and 7777, SSL on 6697
it should be trivial to change the port in the source code Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: gmaxwell on June 30, 2011, 06:09:29 AM The standard client connects to irc.lfnet.org for discovery. Some ISPs disable IRC on the default port, it would be helpful to be able to set a different port in bitcoin.conf. Is lfnet controlled by the dev team? If so, could more than 1 port be made available for connecting. Don't bother with the IRC bootstrapping. Add -dnsseed to your startup arguments. IRC bootstrapping is going to go away in future versions of bitcoin, so getting more people testing with dnsseed now would be good. Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: TierNolan on June 30, 2011, 10:45:25 AM Don't bother with the IRC bootstrapping. Add -dnsseed to your startup arguments. IRC bootstrapping is going to go away in future versions of bitcoin, so getting more people testing with dnsseed now would be good. Do I need to specify an IP address for -dnsseed, or is it hard coded? Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: gmaxwell on June 30, 2011, 01:55:55 PM Don't bother with the IRC bootstrapping. Add -dnsseed to your startup arguments. IRC bootstrapping is going to go away in future versions of bitcoin, so getting more people testing with dnsseed now would be good. Do I need to specify an IP address for -dnsseed, or is it hard coded? No arguments required. (There are some hardcoded dnsseeds in the software) Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: TierNolan on June 30, 2011, 09:22:50 PM I submittted a pull, maybe a waste if they are switching to DNS seeding.
However, DNS seeding seems pretty slow at the moment. Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: gmaxwell on July 01, 2011, 01:46:46 AM I submittted a pull, maybe a waste if they are switching to DNS seeding. However, DNS seeding seems pretty slow at the moment. ? It's reliably much faster than IRC in my testing. It pretty much always gets connections within a second of starting. Title: Re: IRC server - alternative port option Post by: TierNolan on July 01, 2011, 09:26:22 AM ? It's reliably much faster than IRC in my testing. It pretty much always gets connections within a second of starting. Hmm, maybe I hadn't ports opened or something. |