diff -uNr a/bitcoin/src/net.cpp b/bitcoin/src/net.cpp
--- a/bitcoin/src/net.cpp c33ce2cb5f801e8d37d93acb2920cdf5141ea98f131eae361df7fa7d80b4fc412f937d8db8396bcc4b353a515289decc4231c09486ed6e1a3ae9140ea2814cbf
+++ b/bitcoin/src/net.cpp a5977f1e2ad59eeeefbcb59e32a935724653fd328e65570d9b7a6270f1ca1f27a00e2221c05da122372d203b3ccc82dd04d3eadc745a6d7f7add3f5cf6aca410
@@ -263,114 +263,6 @@
     return fRet;
 }
 
-bool GetMyExternalIP2(const CAddress& addrConnect, const char* pszGet, const char* pszKeyword, unsigned int& ipRet)
-{
-    SOCKET hSocket;
-    if (!ConnectSocket(addrConnect, hSocket))
-        return error("GetMyExternalIP() : connection to %s failed", addrConnect.ToString().c_str());
-
-    send(hSocket, pszGet, strlen(pszGet), MSG_NOSIGNAL);
-
-    string strLine;
-    while (RecvLine(hSocket, strLine))
-    {
-        if (strLine.empty()) // HTTP response is separated from headers by blank line
-        {
-            loop
-            {
-                if (!RecvLine(hSocket, strLine))
-                {
-                    closesocket(hSocket);
-                    return false;
-                }
-                if (pszKeyword == NULL)
-                    break;
-                if (strLine.find(pszKeyword) != -1)
-                {
-                    strLine = strLine.substr(strLine.find(pszKeyword) + strlen(pszKeyword));
-                    break;
-                }
-            }
-            closesocket(hSocket);
-            if (strLine.find("<") != -1)
-                strLine = strLine.substr(0, strLine.find("<"));
-            strLine = strLine.substr(strspn(strLine.c_str(), " \t\n\r"));
-            while (strLine.size() > 0 && isspace(strLine[strLine.size()-1]))
-                strLine.resize(strLine.size()-1);
-            CAddress addr(strLine,0,true);
-            printf("GetMyExternalIP() received [%s] %s\n", strLine.c_str(), addr.ToString().c_str());
-            if (addr.ip == 0 || addr.ip == INADDR_NONE || !addr.IsRoutable())
-                return false;
-            ipRet = addr.ip;
-            return true;
-        }
-    }
-    closesocket(hSocket);
-    return error("GetMyExternalIP() : connection closed");
-}
-
-// We now get our external IP from the IRC server first and only use this as a backup
-bool GetMyExternalIP(unsigned int& ipRet)
-{
-    CAddress addrConnect;
-    const char* pszGet;
-    const char* pszKeyword;
-
-    if (fUseProxy)
-        return false;
-
-    for (int nLookup = 0; nLookup <= 1; nLookup++)
-    for (int nHost = 1; nHost <= 2; nHost++)
-    {
-        // We should be phasing out our use of sites like these.  If we need
-        // replacements, we should ask for volunteers to put this simple
-        // php file on their webserver that prints the client IP:
-        //  <?php echo $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; ?>
-        if (nHost == 1)
-        {
-            addrConnect = CAddress("91.198.22.70",80); // checkip.dyndns.org
-
-            if (nLookup == 1)
-            {
-                CAddress addrIP("checkip.dyndns.org", 80, true);
-                if (addrIP.IsValid())
-                    addrConnect = addrIP;
-            }
-
-            pszGet = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n"
-                     "Host: checkip.dyndns.org\r\n"
-                     "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)\r\n"
-                     "Connection: close\r\n"
-                     "\r\n";
-
-            pszKeyword = "Address:";
-        }
-        else if (nHost == 2)
-        {
-            addrConnect = CAddress("74.208.43.192", 80); // www.showmyip.com
-
-            if (nLookup == 1)
-            {
-                CAddress addrIP("www.showmyip.com", 80, true);
-                if (addrIP.IsValid())
-                    addrConnect = addrIP;
-            }
-
-            pszGet = "GET /simple/ HTTP/1.1\r\n"
-                     "Host: www.showmyip.com\r\n"
-                     "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)\r\n"
-                     "Connection: close\r\n"
-                     "\r\n";
-
-            pszKeyword = NULL; // Returns just IP address
-        }
-
-        if (GetMyExternalIP2(addrConnect, pszGet, pszKeyword, ipRet))
-            return true;
-    }
-
-    return false;
-}
 
 void ThreadGetMyExternalIP(void* parg)
 {
@@ -386,26 +278,10 @@
     }
 
     // Fallback in case IRC fails to get it
-    if (GetMyExternalIP(addrLocalHost.ip))
-    {
-        printf("GetMyExternalIP() returned %s\n", addrLocalHost.ToStringIP().c_str());
-        if (addrLocalHost.IsRoutable())
-        {
-            // If we already connected to a few before we had our IP, go back and addr them.
-            // setAddrKnown automatically filters any duplicate sends.
-            CAddress addr(addrLocalHost);
-            addr.nTime = GetAdjustedTime();
-            CRITICAL_BLOCK(cs_vNodes)
-                BOOST_FOREACH(CNode* pnode, vNodes)
-                    pnode->PushAddress(addr);
-        }
-    }
+    // ... nope.
 }
 
 
-
-
-
 bool AddAddress(CAddress addr, int64 nTimePenalty, CAddrDB *pAddrDB)
 {
     if (!addr.IsRoutable())