<p>That DNS server in particular does not exist anymore and is not used by Bitcoin Core. </p>

<p>I believe for a while it returned stale results which is what that comment would have been about. </p>

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Claris
<p>According to <a href="http://bitcoinstats.com/network/dns-servers/" rel="nofollow">bitcoinstats.com</a>:</p>

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  <p>Except for bitseed.xf2.org the seeds aim to return nodes that are currently online and reachable. </p>
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<p>If the nodes are not aimed to be currently online and reachable, what qualities (if any) are they aimed to have?</p>

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What properties does the DNSSeed list at bitseed.xf2.org attempt to have?
davidhwang
# What properties does the DNSSeed list at bitseed.xf2.org attempt to have?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-23)

According to [bitcoinstats.com](http://bitcoinstats.com/network/dns-servers/):

> Except for bitseed.xf2.org the seeds aim to return nodes that are currently online and reachable.

If the nodes are not aimed to be currently online and reachable, what qualities (if any) are they aimed to have?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-23. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

That DNS server in particular does not exist anymore and is not used by Bitcoin Core.

I believe for a while it returned stale results which is what that comment would have been about.


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