PyBitmessage/src/helper_bootstrap.py

import shared
import socket
import defaultKnownNodes
import pickle
import time

def knownNodes():
    try:
        # We shouldn't have to use the shared.knownNodesLock because this had
        # better be the only thread accessing knownNodes right now.
        pickleFile = open(shared.appdata + 'knownnodes.dat', 'rb')
        shared.knownNodes = pickle.load(pickleFile)
        pickleFile.close()
    except:
        shared.knownNodes = defaultKnownNodes.createDefaultKnownNodes(shared.appdata)
    if shared.config.getint('bitmessagesettings', 'settingsversion') > 6:
        print 'Bitmessage cannot read future versions of the keys file (keys.dat). Run the newer version of Bitmessage.'
        raise SystemExit

def dns():
    # DNS bootstrap. This could be programmed to use the SOCKS proxy to do the
    # DNS lookup some day but for now we will just rely on the entries in
    # defaultKnownNodes.py. Hopefully either they are up to date or the user
    # has run Bitmessage recently without SOCKS turned on and received good
    # bootstrap nodes using that method.
    with shared.printLock:
        if shared.config.get('bitmessagesettings', 'socksproxytype') == 'none':
            try:
                for item in socket.getaddrinfo('bootstrap8080.bitmessage.org', 80):
                    print 'Adding', item[4][0], 'to knownNodes based on DNS boostrap method'
                    shared.knownNodes[1][shared.Peer(item[4][0], 8080)] = int(time.time())
            except:
                print 'bootstrap8080.bitmessage.org DNS bootstrapping failed.'
            try:
                for item in socket.getaddrinfo('bootstrap8444.bitmessage.org', 80):
                    print 'Adding', item[4][0], 'to knownNodes based on DNS boostrap method'
                    shared.knownNodes[1][shared.Peer(item[4][0], 8444)] = int(time.time())
            except:
                print 'bootstrap8444.bitmessage.org DNS bootstrapping failed.'
        else:
            print 'DNS bootstrap skipped because SOCKS is used.'