{
"subject": "Re: Simple to implement feature requests",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">There are command line options:<br/><br/>bitcoin -addnode=1.2.3.4 to tell bitcoin about a node to connect to<br/>bitcoin -connect=1.2.3.4 connect only to the specified node(s)<br/><br/>You can use more than one of these, for instance<br/>bitcoin -connect=(first to try) -connect=(next to try) ...<br/><br/>You can specify non-routable IPs with -connect like 192.168.x.x, so if you had a server farm and you wanted one server to connect to the world and the rest to connect to the one server, you could do that.<br/><br/>In particular, -addnode is needed if you're always going to connect through TOR, since the IRC server blocks all the TOR exit nodes. To connect through TOR, you could use:<br/><br/>bitcoin -proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 -addnode=212.159.72.216</div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46.msg284#msg284"
},
"date": "2010-02-08T16:37:24Z"
}