j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post">While I was trying out Bitcoin with Tor a while ago, I found that it was impossible to get connected in a reasonable amount of time. See the debug.log excerpt below.<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code:</div><div class="code">Starting 2 BitcoinMiner threads<br/>BitcoinMiner started<br/>BitcoinMiner started<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.0hrs lasttry=-357170.7hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connected <br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...<br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname.<br/>IRC ERROR :Closing Link: 208.53.142.42 (Registration timed out)<br/>IRC socket closed<br/>IRC waiting 71 seconds to reconnect<br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connected <br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...<br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname.<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.0hrs lasttry=-357170.7hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>IRC ERROR :Closing Link: 208.53.142.42 (Registration timed out)<br/>IRC socket closed<br/>IRC waiting 138 seconds to reconnect<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.1hrs lasttry=-357170.7hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connected <br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...<br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname.<br/>DelayedRepaint<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.1hrs lasttry=-357170.8hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>IRC ERROR :Closing Link: 208.53.142.42 (Registration timed out)<br/>IRC socket closed<br/>IRC waiting 211 seconds to reconnect<br/>DelayedRepaint<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.1hrs lasttry=-357170.8hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connecting <br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.2hrs lasttry=-357170.8hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>proxy connected <br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...<br/>IRC :giraffe.heliacal.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname.<br/>IRC ERROR :Closing Link: 208.53.142.42 (Registration timed out)<br/>IRC socket closed<br/>IRC waiting 292 seconds to reconnect<br/>trying connection lastseen=-2.2hrs lasttry=-357170.9hrs<br/>proxy connecting <br/>DelayedRepaint<br/>DBFlush(false)<br/>addr.dat refcount=0<br/>addr.dat flush<br/>ler exiting<br/>ThreadMessageHandler exiting<br/>blkindex.dat refcount=0<br/>blkindex.dat flush<br/>ThreadIRCSeed exiting<br/>ThreadBitcoinMiner exiting, 1 threads remaining<br/>ThreadBitcoinMiner exiting, 0 threads remaining<br/>wallet.dat refcount=0<br/>wallet.dat flush<br/>StopNode()<br/>DBFlush(true)<br/>Bitcoin exiting</div><br/>I know that the guy who operates irc.lfnet.org is around here. Maybe he can remove that hostname limitation, since it's blocking some users.<br/><br/>Also, most of the seednodes are gone. Only 37 out of 230 are accepting connections on port 8333. This makes connecting without IRC very slow. The offline ones should be removed. A list of online seednodes is attached.</div> text/html
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