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Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 17:59:26 +0200
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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org is up
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas@schildbach.de> 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.

That's what Matt's implementation is doing. You don't have to run mine :)

I chose not to do so, as I wanted to be able to serve a different
response to every query, but more diversity is a good thing.

-- 
Pieter