FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names

Re:FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... ... by mike_esspe on Saturday April 16, 2011 @03:53AM (#2453505)

Hardcoded nodes are only needed if that's your first start. After that bitcoin client collects a databases of nodes, listening to "addr" messages from the network. On the next restarts, it uses addresses from that database one by one.

And there are about 300 hardcoded nodes right now from different countries.

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Re:FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... ... by cookiecaper on Saturday April 16, 2011 @05:43PM (#2454923)

I see. That's better I suppose. You just need a relatively easy way to update the seed nodes in case all of the included nodes are down. Does this exist? If not, maybe I'll add it to the client.

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Re:FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... ... by mike_esspe on Saturday April 16, 2011 @07:42PM (#2455159)

There is a dns-seeding (currently two domains which respond with multiple A records, pointing to known good nodes).

I think hardcoded nodes are updated only manually via git.

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