On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:52:07AM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Monday, 25 May 2015, at 11:48 pm, Jim Phillips wrote: > > Do any wallets actually do this yet? > > Not that I know of, but they do seed their address database via DNS, which > you can poison if you control the LAN's DNS resolver. I did this for a > Bitcoin-only Wi-Fi network I operated at a remote festival. We had well over > a hundred lightweight wallets, all trying to connect to the Bitcoin P2P > network over a very bandwidth-constrained Internet link, so I poisoned the > DNS and rejected all outbound connection attempts on port 8333, to force all > the wallets to connect to a single local full node, which had connectivity to > a single remote node over the Internet. Thus, all the lightweight wallets at > the festival had Bitcoin network connectivity, but we only needed to backhaul > the Bitcoin network's transaction traffic once.
Interesting! What festival was this? -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000000003ce9f2f90736ab7bd24d29f40346057f9e217b3753896bb
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