Quote from: deusopus on October 30, 2021, 02:05:10 AM

no i had to rebuild it because i reinstalled my operating system. i didn't know you could just install it into another directory.

i backed up the generic seeder directory though. i plugged in the old setting file and it fired up again. im not sure i have the settings completely correct though.

ive had it running with these settings for two week with no dump

i left the min_peer_proto_version blank and that gave me the error even though it is optional :/

do i want to use the RPC port or the P2P port for the port number?

also, my explorer_url and second_explorer_url are left blank so what should my block count be?

thanks for your help

All of the settings are required to be in the config file, but the optional values can be blank strings which are just two double quotes. For example: min_peer_proto_version=""

As explained in the full setup guide, the wallet_port value is the main port # that is used to connect to the wallets in your blockchain. This is NOT the rpc port #.

If you do not have access to an explorer with api to the current block count, you should set the block_count value to the most recent block at the time of starting the seeder. Over time this will allow bad nodes that are stuck on blocks higher than that number to be counted as "good" nodes, so I would recommend using at least one explorer to prevent this.

Also, I've updated the github repo with better error handling of the dump file and included a few example configs for bitcoin, dogecoin and exor that you can use to test the seeder to get a better idea of how it works and see some working examples of how to properly fill out the config file. If you do use the sample configs for testing, be sure to delete the dnsseed.dat and dnsseed.dump files to prevent mixing of the two networks in your results, or else just start again with cloning the github repo to a fresh directory and configure your real network once you have a better idea of how it should look when it is working.