Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On 05/15/2014 07:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de 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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Mike Hearn
My android wallet is working OK. Yes it isn't great when seeds have temporary availability problems but things are still working. There's a couple of pull reqs outstanding to include hard coded seed peers and getaddr sourced IPs. Once those are finished and merged in there'll be more backup

[Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread David Shares
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25otbt/someone_put_a_virus_signature_in_the_bitcoin/ I just wanted to pass this into the dev list, in case it hasn't been seen yet. I haven't seen anything about it. Thanks, David.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread Christophe Biocca
Here's the relevant github issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4069 On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, David Shares davidsha...@outlook.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25otbt/someone_put_a_virus_signature_in_the_bitcoin/ I just wanted to pass this into the dev

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Someone put a virus signature into the blockchain

2014-05-16 Thread David Shares
Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Christophe Biocca christophe.bio...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the relevant github issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4069 On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, David Shares davidsha...@outlook.com wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Whitlock
Is Peter Todd's server actually up? The Google public DNS resolver at 8.8.8.8 can't resolve testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org either (SERVFAIL). On Friday, 16 May 2014, at 6:34 pm, Andreas Schildbach wrote: Apparently British Telecom also cannot speak to Peter Todd's server. That another

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
It looks like it might be firewalled, probably just need to fix the ACL in EC2. -Laszlo On May 16, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de wrote: Apparently British Telecom also cannot speak to Peter Todd's server. That another very large ISP in Europe. On 05/15/2014

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Alex Kotenko
Hi guys Just wanted to let you know that Andreas' testnet Bitcoin Wallet doesn't work because of fail in the peer discovery, and this caused us problems as we cannot properly demonstrate my XBTerminal POS on the Bitcoin Conference. Right now I'm booting up an own full node that I will set as

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Golding
dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS jun.dashjr.org. but jun.dashjr.org isn't responding to dns queries (as at 18.10 GMT 2014-05-16) that would be a fundamental problem with the dns infrastructure for that domain (and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Nick Simpson
Luke's server has been having issues with ipv4 routing lately anyway, even ignoring any DNS issues. Nick On May 16, 2014 12:17:17 PM CDT, Rob Golding rob.gold...@astutium.com wrote: dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Corallo
This is very strange...when did you run this test and can anyone else reproduce this? Matt On 05/15/14 11:50, Andreas Schildbach wrote: testnet-seed.bluematt.me OK (but only returns one node) -- Accelerate

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
For example just now: $ nslookup testnet-seed.bluematt.me Server: 127.0.1.1 Address:127.0.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: testnet-seed.bluematt.mecanonical name = bitcoin-seednode.bluematt.me. bitcoin-seednode.bluematt.mecanonical name = desktopv2.bluematt.me. Name:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Alex Kotenko
Ok, what do I need to do? How do I host a testnet seed myself? Best regards, Alex Kotenko 2014-05-16 23:02 GMT+01:00 Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com: There are only two testnet seeds listed in bitcoind, and one of them returns SERVFAIL (testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org) and the other just

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Corallo
Oops, missed the lost On May 16, 2014 3:04:40 PM EDT, Matt Corallo bitcoin-l...@bluematt.me wrote: Oh, I missed that this was the testnet seed. Yea, that one never got set up properly and was just pointing to a static seed node (that is now down...). The mainnet seed actually works. On 05/16/14