Police Terror:
> I notice there's no longer a hosts.cache file. Has it been disabled
> because it was getting filled with bad hosts?

This is wrong. Of course it was created when I stopped the node.

However the node getting stuck cycling through hosts that don't work
makes initial sync difficult.

Maybe there can be a piece of code whereby if there isn't a connection
after X attempts, then it will restart the bootstrap process and clear
the hosts cache. How does that sound?