Function ThreadOpenConnections

src/net.cpp:1300–1431

}

void ThreadOpenConnections()
{
    // Connect to specific addresses
    if (mapArgs.count("-connect") && mapMultiArgs["-connect"].size() > 0)
    {
        for (int64_t nLoop = 0;; nLoop++)
        {
            ProcessOneShot();
            BOOST_FOREACH(string strAddr, mapMultiArgs["-connect"])
            {
                CAddress addr;
                OpenNetworkConnection(addr, false, NULL, strAddr.c_str());
                for (int i = 0; i < 10 && i < nLoop; i++)
                {
                    MilliSleep(500);
                }
            }
            MilliSleep(500);
        }
    }

    // Initiate network connections
    int64_t nStart = GetTime();

    // Minimum time before next feeler connection (in microseconds).
    int64_t nNextFeeler = PoissonNextSend(nStart*1000*1000, FEELER_INTERVAL);
    while (true)
    {
        ProcessOneShot();

        MilliSleep(500);

        CSemaphoreGrant grant(*semOutbound);
        boost::this_thread::interruption_point();

        // Add seed nodes if DNS seeds are all down (an infrastructure attack?).
        if (addrman.size() == 0 && (GetTime() - nStart > 60)) {
            static bool done = false;
            if (!done) {
                LogPrintf("Adding fixed seed nodes as DNS doesn't seem to be available.\n");
                addrman.Add(convertSeed6(Params().FixedSeeds()), CNetAddr("127.0.0.1"));
                done = true;
            }
        }

        //
        // Choose an address to connect to based on most recently seen
        //
        CAddress addrConnect;

        // Only connect out to one peer per network group (/16 for IPv4).
        // Do this here so we don't have to critsect vNodes inside mapAddresses critsect.
        int nOutbound = 0;
        set<vector<unsigned char> > setConnected;
        {
            LOCK(cs_vNodes);
            BOOST_FOREACH(CNode* pnode, vNodes) {
                if (!pnode->fInbound) {