On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Andreas Schildbach <andr...@schildbach.de> wrote: > I maybe have made this suggestion in the past, but why don't we teach > the seeder (or maybe even plain bitcoind) how to write a zone file and > then use matured DNS servers to serve this zone? > > I admit I never ran my own DNS so I'm not sure if that can work -- but > to me it sounds like the easiest approach plus everyone can just use > stock server software.
We'd used an approach like that previously and I believe it produced fairly bad load imbalances, especially since some resolvers only pass on a single result. And that was before there was a wide deployment of broken client software that trusted the dnsseeds exclusively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
