Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-12-23 📝 Original message:On December 23, 2022 ...
📅 Original date posted:2022-12-23
📝 Original message:On December 23, 2022 1:39:13 AM CST, Vasil Dimov <vd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 22:06:03 -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
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>> a lack of a convenient source of onion addresses to try
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>$ bitcoin-cli getnodeaddresses 0 |jq -r 'map(select(.network == "onion")) | .[].address'
It's not that simple. Because onion addresses cost close to nothing nothing to obtain it's dubious to just try some on a one time basis without checking to see if they actually have a longer term track record of actually existing. You could end up trying addresses of a one time Sybil attack.
The advantage of using the DNS seed records is those addresses are tested over long time frames, so you have a better chance of them representing real nodes. But my DNS seed doesn't happen to be setup to track nodes using Tor right now.
📝 Original message:On December 23, 2022 1:39:13 AM CST, Vasil Dimov <vd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 22:06:03 -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>[...]
>> a lack of a convenient source of onion addresses to try
>[...]
>
>$ bitcoin-cli getnodeaddresses 0 |jq -r 'map(select(.network == "onion")) | .[].address'
It's not that simple. Because onion addresses cost close to nothing nothing to obtain it's dubious to just try some on a one time basis without checking to see if they actually have a longer term track record of actually existing. You could end up trying addresses of a one time Sybil attack.
The advantage of using the DNS seed records is those addresses are tested over long time frames, so you have a better chance of them representing real nodes. But my DNS seed doesn't happen to be setup to track nodes using Tor right now.