<p>This feature is no longer present in Bitcoin Core.  It was <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/74567f7ef1b0c550523267c77ad3f8f1d2831c40" rel="nofollow noreferrer">removed</a> in 2011.</p>

<p>You can get the same effect by adding multiple <code>addnode=</code> lines to your bitcoin.conf.</p>

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2017-09-26T21:17:15.320Z
2017-09-26T21:17:15.320Z
Nate Eldredge
<p>According to <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page</a>,</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The client will automatically read a file named "addr.txt" in the
  bitcoin data directory and will add any addresses it finds in there as
  node addresses.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>However, I can't find any point in the source code where this file is actually read, and I don't know how to verify all the peers known by my node.</p>

<p>Is the "addr.txt" file actually read by bitcoind? 
How can I check if the addresses are actually loaded?</p>

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How to load a peer list file?
FedFranz
# How to load a peer list file?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-26)

According to [this page](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery),

> The client will automatically read a file named "addr.txt" in the
> bitcoin data directory and will add any addresses it finds in there as
> node addresses.

However, I can't find any point in the source code where this file is actually read, and I don't know how to verify all the peers known by my node.

Is the "addr.txt" file actually read by bitcoind?
How can I check if the addresses are actually loaded?

**Tags:** bitcoind, peer-discovery


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-26. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

This feature is no longer present in Bitcoin Core. It was [removed](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/74567f7ef1b0c550523267c77ad3f8f1d2831c40) in 2011.

You can get the same effect by adding multiple `addnode=` lines to your bitcoin.conf.


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