0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiedOnTitan OP 20 Feb \ on: Seeds of Consensus: Bitcoin Core DNS Seeds in /src/kernel/chainparams.cpp bitdevs
I went through each of these hostnames, pinging them, then doing a WHOIS lookup to determine the Autonomous System (AS) number, which informs which network the host routes to.
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Ping however will only grab one IP from a list of possible IP Addresses. It turns out that most of these hostnames point to numerous IP addresses. Which makes perfect sense for fault tolerance, geographic dispersion, and redundancy reasons. The next step I listed all IP addresses tied to each seed hostname:To get a better feel for these IP addresses, I wrote a script to collect various data points on each of these IP addresses. Here is the result of the first hostname:
Just discovered https://bitnodes.io/ which has accomplished much of the initial goal of my project, which was to map the Bitcoin node network and track its growth over time.