Quote from: burkett_38 on April 27, 2018, 03:04:54 AM

There are indeed several methods used to discover a node's external IPv4 address, but I expect any engineer who has used sockets before would be able to write them. I have found no reason to think they were copied from anywhere. It's odd that they would trigger false-positives.

I don't find that odd. In my opinion false-positives are quite common and technically an expected trade-off.

While any one ordinary skilled practitioner can write the required working code, the choice (and order!) of the external sites that it tries to contact were very peculiar. IIRC the original engineer that helped Satoshi with that code was Hungarian. In turn that code they developed triggered IDS systems when run in Germany and France, but it would not trigger them when run in the USA or Canada. When AT&T changed their IDS vendor in North America then those false-positives started popping up on AT&T U-Verse, which was then a new residential offering.

The details above are all hearsay, personally I've only experienced that problems when using old version of Cisco IDS option for Cisco IOS version that was deprecated and no longer officially supported.

If you are limited to the Internet searches, then actually try some IRC channels, especially the ones that were frequented by genjix, phantomcircuit and Mircea Popescu. I don't think they read this site anymore, but there must be people here who regularly attended the dev meeting on the appropriate IRC channels.

Edit: One piece of warning: connecting to the IRC channels from the same IPv4/IPv6 addresses that participate in Bitcoin P2P network will most likely attract vicious vulnerability scans of your hardware. So use a VPN or other means of rapidly changing your network address in case you get noticed by those who will try to help you configure and secure your network.

Edit2: By a dint of accident I'm writing this on the same laptop I used when I originally joined this forum, with just few software updates installed since then. I started my Xchat IRC client to see if I still have the list of channels I used to read then. But the vulnerability scanners killed my IRC client in less than one minute. So please be careful.