Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WqPH2-0006FO-QM for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 May 2014 16:03:16 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.217.178 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.217.178; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-lb0-f178.google.com; Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WqPH1-00055G-Uo for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 May 2014 16:03:16 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id w7so1113771lbi.23 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.203.236 with SMTP id kt12mr13232924lac.8.1401465789261; Fri, 30 May 2014 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.89.68 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2014 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140523221726.GA30143@petertodd.org> <20140526163753.GA18693@petertodd.org> <48331d04b68b3d6554b4e59e97ffbafe@webmail.mckay.com> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:03:09 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: Andreas Schildbach Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WqPH1-00055G-Uo Cc: Bitcoin Development Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up again X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 16:03:17 -0000 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Andreas Schildbach 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.