IRC server - alternative port option

[TierNolan]

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.

[WakiMiko]

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

[gmaxwell]

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.

[TierNolan]

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?

[gmaxwell]

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)

[TierNolan]

I submittted a pull, maybe a waste if they are switching to DNS seeding.

However, DNS seeding seems pretty slow at the moment.

[gmaxwell]

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.

[TierNolan]

? 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.