I want to use a Bitcoin Cash full node crawler for statistics... but how ?

Hello,

One of the ways to crawl the Bitcoin (Cash) network is via 'dnsseed' project.

https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder

The reason is :

1. I don't fully trust https://bchnodes.online and want to verify their data. (they say 2009 nodes vs. 2240 nodes for https://cash.coin.dance/nodes ... go figure, there's over 10% discrepancy in data statistics.)
2. They publish only countries, but not networks (ISPs), where nodes are located.
3. I want to do independent tests for other Satoshi-like coins: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Dash. (and, shockingly, there is no multi-coin crawler, despite the fact that those coins differ ONLY in TCP port number and magic number; they have same API.)
4. There's this guy "trouble-maker", called BitPico, telling the world, that 409% of all nodes are located in China. Let's prove, or disprove him once and for all. (source: https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-cash-network-highly-centralized-49-of-all-nodes-run-on-alibabas-facilities-bitpico/)

There is only one problem: I don't have a DNS server, and I can't use it.

Is there an easy way to connect a crawler (bitcoin-seeder, or another ...) to 'localhost', a local Full Node ?

How ?

Thanks,

-"Technologov"

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