The twister P2P Book

Overview

The twister peer-to-peer network requires a couple of special DNS seeders that are hardcoded in twister-core and twister-seeder to provide an updated list of known peers to the new connections. If you have a 24/7 Linux machine and can add a special NS record to your domain, please consider running twister-seeder!

Requirements

The twister-seeder is based on the bitcoin-seeder so it has similar build requirements

Server

• root access;
• free port 53 to launch twister-seeder DNS on it;
• domain access with the ability to change NS records;
• free centralized domain providers are not recommended, as they may block NS features.

Client (public peer)

To be reachable for twister-seeder, the client (twister-core peer) must meet the following requirements:

• port 28333 is open (twister-core is launched with ./twisterd -port=28333)
• todo: other conditions require a revision of the existing crawl filter implementation