* A new option -dns is introduced that enables name lookups in
-connect and -addnode, which is not enabled by default,
as it may be considered a security issue.
* A Lookup function is added that supports retrieving one or
more addresses based on a host name
* CAddress constructors (optionally) support name lookups.
* The different places in the source code that did name lookups
are refactored to use NameLookup or CAddress instead (dns seeding,
irc server lookup, getexternalip, ...).
* Removed ToStringLog() from CAddress, and switched to ToString(),
since it was empty.
Use case: Customer owes you bitcoins, so you create a payment address
associated with an account with a negative balance (the amount they owe).
When customer pays, that account balance will go to zero.
This should allow the bitcoin binaries to run on ever so slightly more installs,
specifically those who use a different libpng library (many distros use 1.4 which is imcompatible with 1.2.
When one single dependency of an unconfirmed transaction is already verified, this does not mean the parent is confirmed. We can skip checking its own dependencies though.
there is no internal modification of any file in this commit
files are moved into directories according to established standards in
sourcecode distribution; these directories contain:
src - Files that are used in constructing the executable binaries,
but are not installed.
doc - Files in HTML and text format that document usage, quirks of
the implementation, and contributor checklists.
locale - Files that contain human language translation of strings
used in the program
contrib - Files contributed from distributions or other third party
implementing scripts and auxiliary programs
Information about the best known chain is added to wallet.dat. If this
information does not match the data in blkindex.dat, a rescan is automatically
performed, starting from the the last known block. When upgrading from a wallet
which does not have this information, no rescan is done automatically.
Jeff Garzik