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
> custom DNS implementation which is not 100% compatible. There have been
> bugs in the past, like a case sensitive match for the domain name.
> 
> Current state (seeds taken from bitcoinj):
> 
> mainnet:
> 
> seed.bitcoin.sipa.be                  OK
> dnsseed.bluematt.me                   OK
> dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org            SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs
> seed.bitcoinstats.com                 OK
> 
> testnet:
> 
> testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org    SERVFAIL, just from Telefonica
> testnet-seed.bluematt.me              OK (but only returns one node)
> 
> Note: Telefonica is one of Europe's largest ISPs.
> 
> I would try to improve DNS myself, but I'm not capable of writing C. My
> "fix" would be to reimplement everything in Java -- I doubt you guys
> would be happy with that.
> 
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