Seednodes are a misnomer as that are not necessarily nodes which have Bitcoin running. Instead it refers to standard DNS servers with A records that new Bitcoin nodes use for bootstrapping to learn of peers. Currently, Bitcoin master shows these four: - bitseed.xf2.org - dnsseed.bluematt.me - seed.bitcoin.sipa.be - dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org Source code: - http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/net.cpp#L1123 <code> // DNS seeds // Each pair gives a source name and a seed name. // The first name is used as information source for addrman. // The second name should resolve to a list of seed addresses. static const char *strDNSSeed[][2] = { {"xf2.org", "bitseed.xf2.org"}, {"bluematt.me", "dnsseed.bluematt.me"}, {"bitcoin.sipa.be", "seed.bitcoin.sipa.be"}, {"dashjr.org", "dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org"}, }; </code>