bitcoind running on the N900 smartphone

[Matt Corallo]

Update: 2010-02-04: The changes to ParseHex are no longer needed as they're part of the bitcoin source now. An updated build for the N900 is available here:

http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/bitcoind-b1a657.gz

This is built from github commit b1a657.

When I'm running bitcoind-b1a657 I notice an irc connection to some irc server being established, e.g.
tcp        0      0 192.168.3.118:56738     irc.lfnet.org:ircd      ESTABLISHED

What's the purpose of this connection?

Bitcoin opens an IRC connection to lfnet for bootstrapping (finding peers).  New nodes have to find out about existing nodes somehow. 

[doublec]

Bitcoin opens an IRC connection to lfnet for bootstrapping (finding peers).  New nodes have to find out about existing nodes somehow. 

Run it with '-no-irc' to prevent it from making an IRC connection. You can also use '-no-listen' to prevent it from listening for incoming connections and use '-connect' to explicitly connect to a node. This minimizes the number of connections to your phone.

[TiagoTiago]

Btw, when i do bitcoind stop it seems it doesn't close (i still see it running with htop, and trying to fire it up again gives me an error about the .lock), am i doing somthing wrong?

[theymos]

Run it with '-no-irc' to prevent it from making an IRC connection. You can also use '-no-listen' to prevent it from listening for incoming connections and use '-connect' to explicitly connect to a node. This minimizes the number of connections to your phone.

It's -nolisten and -noirc.

[doublec]

Btw, when i do bitcoind stop it seems it doesn't close (i still see it running with htop, and trying to fire it up again gives me an error about the .lock), am i doing somthing wrong?

It takes quite a while (a few minutes) to stop but it does eventually. I don't know why.

[TiagoTiago]

Oh, i see, thanx