This github's latest tag is v1.5.0
Is there another site that has v1.6 ?
I compiled and ran v1.5.0 (the latest on this repository) and monitored the
debug.log output file.
It makes mention of a DNS seed
Loading addresses from DNS seeds (could take a while)
1 addresses found from DNS seeds
dnsseed thread exit
connect() to 185.243.11.77:5556 failed after select(): Connection refused
connect() to 185.243.11.77:5556 failed after select(): Connection refused
connect() to 185.243.11.77:5556 failed after select(): Connection refused
but does not in fact connect to any peers; the reason is that line 94 of
chainparams.cpp refers to a sub-domain of deutsche-emark.de which should be name-served by a delegated DNS server (the DNS seeder) running a customized version of Sipa's seeder,
94 vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("deutsche-emark.de", "seed.deutsche-emark.de"));
this delegated name server for the sub-domain should return several IP's of real-time active nodes, but instead is just returning one IP
but which is not actually running an eMark node. Look at the ANSWER SECTION here:
# dig seed.deutsche-emark.de A
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> seed.deutsche-emark.de A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14079
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;seed.deutsche-emark.de. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
seed.deutsche-emark.de. 85748 IN A 185.243.11.77
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
deutsche-emark.de. 85748 IN NS root-dns.netcup.net.
deutsche-emark.de. 85748 IN NS third-dns.netcup.net.
deutsche-emark.de. 85748 IN NS second-dns.netcup.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
root-dns.netcup.net. 6782 IN A 46.38.225.225
root-dns.netcup.net. 6782 IN AAAA 2a03:4000:0:1::e1e1
second-dns.netcup.net. 6993 IN A 37.221.199.199
second-dns.netcup.net. 6993 IN AAAA 2a03:4000:2:24b::c7c7
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 19 18:56:58 UTC 2020
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 23
For comparison, look at what a
dig query returns for a working bitcoin seeder: 25 different IP addresses of active bitcoin nodes:
dig seed.bitcoinstats.com A
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> seed.bitcoinstats.com A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51024
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 25, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;seed.bitcoinstats.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 108.228.10.182
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 136.243.146.69
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 138.201.18.203
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 140.190.21.8
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 164.132.205.148
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 178.128.49.29
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 178.250.156.229
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 185.247.224.191
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 193.196.37.62
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 208.81.1.105
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 210.54.38.227
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 13.114.165.12
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 23.238.48.248
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 34.85.35.125
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 46.166.174.75
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 46.166.174.77
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 47.156.153.122
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 63.250.36.228
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 77.250.211.40
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 79.233.172.66
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 84.16.242.193
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 85.214.49.250
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 91.121.133.13
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 93.115.20.130
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 36 IN A 104.248.59.156
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
seed.bitcoinstats.com. 276 IN NS seedns.bitcoinstats.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
seedns.bitcoinstats.com. 276 IN A 46.101.246.115
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 19 19:25:33 UTC 2020
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 487
Not until I added at-the-time known good peer nodes to the
~/.eMark/eMark.conf file were peers found
addnode=144.91.77.184
addnode=213.136.80.217
addnode=45.142.176.172
addnode=82.161.34.149
addnode=147.135.97.55
addnode=95.217.78.79
addnode=41.13.20.93