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But I think Melvin Carvalho's comment was about the fixed seeds, he was pointing out that Todd is one of the fixed seeds and so if a person runs a clearnent node, the software will default to connecting to the fixed node seeds, one of which is Todd's. Did I misunderstand?

103 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 18h

Hmm I think he was talking about Peter's DNS seed, which you disable with dnsseed=0. But you don't connect to all seeds iirc (unless that changed and I missed it (which would be bad)).

From the 1000 or so hardcoded nodes in fixed seeds, your node picks a couple (randomly) until you have a sizable address book of peers of your own, then doesn't use them anymore.

You can turn that off too with fixedseeds=0.

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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 16h

got it, thanks. But if I do both dnsseed=0 and fixedseeds=0 I would need to provide a node to connect to, otherwise my node wouldn't know how to find a peer, right?

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 9h

yes, or copy a peers.dat that you already have.

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