How to run dns seeder? Are there any tutorials on how to setup dnsseeder for a new altcoin. I am struggling with this for past couple of days.

I am modifying dogecoin seeder and i just cant setup on my server. My coin daemon is running on the same AWS server. I did open the ports 53 and for daemon and rpc.  I only have one ip running both daemon and dnsseed. My understanding is that the more nodes connect to dnsseed, it will auto add the nodes to its dns list.

i have set this on godaddy records

dnsseed.example.com -&gt; IP 


and IP is running dnsseeder.

Here i run

./dnsseed -h dnsseed.example.com -n IP


and i see this

Supporting whitelisted filters: 0x1,0x5,0x9,0xd
No e-mail address set. Please use -m.


When i check whether dnsseed is running,

netstat -anp


I could not find any process listening on port 53.

How do i check if dnsseed is running? Thank you for your time as i find this topic confusing.
I realize this question is a couple years old, but a proper tutorial has never been written until now. The tutorial is somewhat large, so I won't re-post it here, but I wrote a step-by-step guide for setting up a DNS seeder that you can find permanently hosted here: https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder/blob/master/SETUP.md.

The instructions are written for a clone of the original bitcoin-seeder called the generic-seeder, which is a modified clone of the bitcoin-seeder that makes it easier to set up a DNS seed for virtually any alt coin by using a config file.

As far as why your seeder isn't working, part of it seems to be because you may not have created the proper DNS records. You say that you created:

dnsseed.example.com -&gt; IP


but it should look more like this:

dnsseed.example.com -&gt; vps.example.com -&gt; IP


vps.example.com: "A" record that points to your server IP address
dnsseed.example.com: NS record that points to your "A" record (vps.example.com)

Once your two DNS entries are created, you can run the seeder app like this:

./dnsseed -h dnsseed.example.com -n vps.example.com -m test@example.com


test@example.com: this can be any email address and is only used to serve SOA record data from the local DNS server that the DNS seeder app is creating. 

Full disclosure if it wasn't already obvious: I am the author of the generic-seeder.