Expectations for DNS Seed operators
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-Bitcoin Core attempts to minimize the level of trust in DNS seeds,
+Zcash attempts to minimize the level of trust in DNS seeds,
but DNS seeds still pose a small amount of risk for the network.
As such, DNS seeds must be run by entities which have some minimum
-level of trust within the Bitcoin community.
+level of trust within the Zcash community.
-Other implementations of Bitcoin software may also use the same
-seeds and may be more exposed. In light of this exposure this
-document establishes some basic expectations for the expectations
-for the operation of dnsseeds.
+Other implementations of Zcash software may also use the same
+seeds and may be more exposed. In light of this exposure, this
+document establishes some basic expectations for operating DNS seeds.
-0. A DNS seed operating organization or person is expected
-to follow good host security practices and maintain control of
-their serving infrastructure and not sell or transfer control of their
-DNS seed. Any hosting services contracted by the operator are
-equally expected to uphold these expectations.
+0. A DNS seed operating organization or person is expected to follow good
+host security practices, maintain control of applicable infrastructure,
+and not sell or transfer control of the DNS seed. Any hosting services
+contracted by the operator are equally expected to uphold these expectations.
1. The DNS seed results must consist exclusively of fairly selected and
-functioning Bitcoin nodes from the public network to the best of the
-operators understanding and capability.
+functioning Zcash nodes from the public network to the best of the
+operator's understanding and capability.
2. For the avoidance of doubt, the results may be randomized but must not
-single-out any group of hosts to receive different results unless due to an
+single out any group of hosts to receive different results unless due to an
urgent technical necessity and disclosed.
3. The results may not be served with a DNS TTL of less than one minute.
4. Any logging of DNS queries should be only that which is necessary
-for the operation of the service or urgent health of the Bitcoin
-network and must not be retained longer than necessary or disclosed
+for the operation of the service or urgent health of the Zcash
+network and must not be retained longer than necessary nor disclosed
to any third party.
5. Information gathered as a result of the operators node-spidering
7. A reachable email contact address must be published for inquiries
related to the DNS seed operation.
-If these expectations cannot be satisfied the operator should
-discontinue providing services and contact the active Bitcoin
-Core development team as well as posting on bitcoin-development.
+If these expectations cannot be satisfied the operator should discontinue
+providing services and contact the active Zcash development team as well as
+creating an issue in the [Zcash repository](https://github.com/zcash/zcash).
Behavior outside of these expectations may be reasonable in some
situations but should be discussed in public in advance.
See also
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-- [bitcoin-seeder](https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder) is a reference implementation of a DNS seed.
+- [zcash-seeder](https://github.com/zcash/zcash-seeder) is a reference
+ implementation of a DNS seed.
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