<p>There are many steps to setting up a DNS seed, so it is next to impossible to determine why your attempt failed without having more knowledge of your setup.</p>

<p>But if you are trying to set up a DNS seed for an alt coin, then I would strongly suggest you use the generic-seeder to prevent having to muck around in the source code.</p>

<p>The generic-seeder is a clone of the original bitcoin-seeder app that aims to make it easy to run a seeder for virtually any blockchain network. The bitcoin-seeder was developed specifically for the bitcoin network only, and configuring it to work with a different blockchain network can be time-consuming and tedious at best. The generic-seeder overcomes this limitation by utilizing a configuration file that holds the data used to connect to a given blockchain, without having to edit the source code, and adds new features and a full setup tutorial as well.</p>

<p>Github repo: <a href="https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder</a><br />
Step-by-step setup guide: <a href="https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder/blob/master/SETUP.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder/blob/master/SETUP.md</a></p>

<p>Full disclosure: I am the author of the generic-seeder.</p>

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Joe Uhren
<p>DNS seeder runs on port 53 It crawls on p2p port of your coind which in your case is 9333.
Click this <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/71909/how-to-setup-nameserver-for-dns-seeder">link</a> for further instruction.</p>

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Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](//meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
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2018-05-18T03:00:18.770Z
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Robert Gludo
<p>I am creating an altcoin, following a tutorial. The tutor skipped explaining setting up the DNS seeder. </p>

<p>How can I implement this code <a href="https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder</a> ? Currently when I run <code>./mycoind</code> (on my local machine) I get connection refused when trying to connect to the seeder defined in <code>strMainNetDNSSeed</code>  </p>

<p>When I run <code>./dnsseed</code> (on my vps) it does not run on port 8333 (actually 9333, I am using <a href="https://github.com/pooler/litecoin-seeder/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/pooler/litecoin-seeder/</a> , a fork of the bitcoin seeder). Can anyone help? </p>

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How do I implement bitcoin-seeder for an altcoin?
Michael
# How do I implement bitcoin-seeder for an altcoin?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-13)

I am creating an altcoin, following a tutorial. The tutor skipped explaining setting up the DNS seeder.

How can I implement this code <https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder> ? Currently when I run `./mycoind` (on my local machine) I get connection refused when trying to connect to the seeder defined in `strMainNetDNSSeed`

When I run `./dnsseed` (on my vps) it does not run on port 8333 (actually 9333, I am using <https://github.com/pooler/litecoin-seeder/> , a fork of the bitcoin seeder). Can anyone help?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-04-07. Score: 1

There are many steps to setting up a DNS seed, so it is next to impossible to determine why your attempt failed without having more knowledge of your setup.

But if you are trying to set up a DNS seed for an alt coin, then I would strongly suggest you use the generic-seeder to prevent having to muck around in the source code.

The generic-seeder is a clone of the original bitcoin-seeder app that aims to make it easy to run a seeder for virtually any blockchain network. The bitcoin-seeder was developed specifically for the bitcoin network only, and configuring it to work with a different blockchain network can be time-consuming and tedious at best. The generic-seeder overcomes this limitation by utilizing a configuration file that holds the data used to connect to a given blockchain, without having to edit the source code, and adds new features and a full setup tutorial as well.

Github repo: <https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder>  
Step-by-step setup guide: <https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder/blob/master/SETUP.md>

Full disclosure: I am the author of the generic-seeder.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-05-18. Score: 0

DNS seeder runs on port 53 It crawls on p2p port of your coind which in your case is 9333.
Click this [link](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/71909/how-to-setup-nameserver-for-dns-seeder) for further instruction.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](//meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.  

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