On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:16:45PM +0100, Jacob wrote:
> 8? i only got these 4,.., did i miss something?
>

>    "seed.bitcoin.sipa.be",
>     "dnsseed.bluematt.me",
>     "dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org",
>     "bitseed.xf2.org",

Yes: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp#L21

pnSeed is an array of IPv4 addresses of hard-coded nodes picked from
ones with good uptime records. (based on DNS seed measurements) It's
meant as a fallback mechanism should pnSeeds ever fail to return node
addresses.

Secondly both mechanisms are only relied upon once; after your node
learns about some other nodes' addresses it saves that information in
~/.bitcoin/peers.dat for use at next startup.

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