<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-05-16&#xA;📝 Original message:My android wallet is working OK. Yes it isn&#39;t great when seeds have&#xA;temporary availability problems but things are still working.&#xA;&#xA;There&#39;s a couple of pull reqs outstanding to include hard coded seed peers&#xA;and getaddr sourced IPs. Once those are finished and merged in there&#39;ll be&#xA;more backup paths.&#xA;On 16 May 2014 11:16, &#34;Andreas Schildbach&#34; &lt;andreas at schildbach.de&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On 05/15/2014 07:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Schildbach&#xA;&gt; &gt; &lt;andreas at schildbach.de&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt;&gt; I&#39;m bringing this issue up again. The current Bitcoin DNS seed&#xA;&gt; &gt;&gt; infrastructure is unstable. I assume this is because of we&#39;re using a&#xA;&gt; &gt;&gt; custom DNS implementation which is not 100% compatible. There have been&#xA;&gt; &gt;&gt; bugs in the past, like a case sensitive match for the domain name.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; If software is using the DNS seeds in a way where one or two being&#xA;&gt; &gt; unavailable is problematic, then the software may be using them&#xA;&gt; &gt; poorly.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; Generally DNS seeds should only be used as fast connectivity hints,&#xA;&gt; &gt; primarily for initial connectivity. Relying on them exclusively&#xA;&gt; &gt; increases isolation vulnerabilities (e.g. because the dns seed&#xA;&gt; &gt; operators or any ISP or network attacker on the path between you and&#xA;&gt; &gt; the seeds can replace the results with ones that isolate you on a&#xA;&gt; &gt; bogus network).&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I just used &#34;nslookup&#34;, after seeing the issues in bitcoinj.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I agree that clients should be robust regarding DNS lookups (and&#xA;&gt; bitcoinj isn&#39;t), but still I think the first step needs to be&#xA;&gt; maintaining a quality infrastructure.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; &#34;Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE&#xA;&gt; Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos.&#xA;&gt; Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform&#xA;&gt; available&#xA;&gt; Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free.&#34;&#xA;&gt; http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140516/904fd554/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>