Also , lets get a new default gridcoinresearch.conf packaged with the windows installer as the node list is far outdated and has sub domains with no DNS records such as sepulcher.wha.la , typh00n.net , grcmagnitude.com , grc.z9.de , gridcoin.coleman-it.com etc and we keep the wiki constant for new users and you developers to keep our new users current too.I read in this about stress testing further, i see Mercosity mention testnet along with others. I have ( had ) been in #gridcoin-testnet for the past year now and it seems rather dead. At one time Caraka gave me 50k testnet grc and i sent it out in 10/100/250/420/666grc increments spending 1-2 hours a day just generating traffic to help generate data into the testnet blockchain but the person never returned the favor and after a year of being told by someone they would ask Rob to mint some more I want to say I spent the whole time wasting my cpu and memory resources trying to help development of this client with idle testnet wallets with 0 coin. You would think you guys want people. No let me rephrase that... You would think that you guys " gridcoin dev's " would appreciate and need/want as many testers as possible and not ignore people whom try to help volunteer resources. Maybe I am wrong , maybe its just my opinion that you guys have your dev clique and grc8 clique of irc.freenode.net #gridcoin world @ and + and piss on everybody else. Please before releasing 3.7.0.0 review /src/net.cpp check my submitted issue and the security issues having the user " customminer " 's 3 DNS enties hard coded in with node.gridcoin.us and the dead DNS entry for seed node #2 gridcoin.asia . This issue with the gridcoin.co.uk nodes is a security issue that needs to be addressed. The fact that the seed DNS entry #3 is the same IP as entry #4 and than entry #5 is their round robin DNS ( 1 dns entry multiple server ip addresses ) and why users are forced by the compiled release from the heads of Gridcoin to be on his nodes. Can that user manipulate CPID data hosting more than 50% the Gridcoin wallet network under their thumb? Can they force a blockchain fork when they have accomplished hosting more than 50% of the user load of the Gridcoin network? I could speculate why , but maybe we just need some network savvy people added to the dev team whom do not code but care about auditing network/dns related issues such as security as the wise NeuralMiner pointed out , somebody controlling a round robin DNS entry our users use is a security threat and risk.
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We do need and appreciate help. However, we use Slack as it's way more tailored towards development. Check out #testnet for more activity, including fund transfers to those who need.
Regarding the DNS issue, yes it will be addressed but in 3.7.1.0. The current staging version is too far into the test phase to add more non-stability changes.