Quote from: Rent_a_Ray on August 04, 2017, 05:21:07 AM

Quote from: AztekPhoenix on August 02, 2017, 07:28:46 PM

Quote from: Vandalay23 on August 02, 2017, 07:23:24 PM

Hi guys,

For some reason I have 0 connections in the new wallet.
I have no .conf file in the directory

how to add nodes?

Kiklo answered your question earlier:
New Users downloading the noirc version from zeit-coin.net ,
run zeitcoin-qt.exe -seednode=zeitseed2.ddns.net
your 1st time, this will update your peers.dat
after it disconnects, then close the zeit wallet and restart normally
zeitcoin-qt.exe

╥Aztek

It's not needed. Binary has hardcoded Seednodes and if there's a previous peers.dat in your directory, you are double clear without doing anything.
Don't use -seednode to add a single peer. It's not intended and you should use addnode=IP.

With a seednode you get more than 1 IP directly from the DNS A record. With a standard fullnode you only get 1 IP directly.

Cheers,
Ray

I think Vandalay23 is a new install (Correct me if I am wrong) , meaning for the moment, he has no peers.dat and since the irc was removed so the antivirus would quit labeling the zeitcoin-qt.exe as a false positive, he was unable to see the network, as your 1st noirc version did not have a DNS seed in it. And that is probably the one he is using.

So temporary measure for new users (noirc version) is to run zeitcoin-qt.exe -seednode=zeitseed2.ddns.net
all this does is connect to a zeit node and sync peers.dat to the new install, takes only a minute or so and disconnects , then the user restarts his zeit wallet normally without ever needing the seednode command ever again.
Current users already have an peers,dat with network address and would never need to run the seednode command. That was only mentioned as a temporary solution until your new zeit wallet with the hard coded seeds was ready for download, as then new users would find peers normally by starting the wallet and search the hard coded seeds.

Cool