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i am using window 7 32bit

because of hardisk failure i have to buy a new hardisk and reinstall window 7 and IXCOIN

but after reinstall i have found that IXCOIN show 0 connection and 0 block !

i have tried to delete all the database except wallet.dat reopen the IXcoin qt but it is not working though !

it is not moving or downloading any block !

can anyone help ? am i missing anything ?

Are any other coins working?

If not maybe you simply have a firewall activated or something like that.

My Ixcoin daemon has 7 connections right now so there are definitely people still out there running it.

-MarkM-

Ix is a little flakey at times. Sometimes I'll see 0 connections, while other times I'll get 12+ connections. Just try again later I'd say.

any help here my computer still cannot find any connection !

0 connection 0 blocks

i have unblocked the windows firewall !

any help please !

really no one help me ?

i willing to put bounty (0.05) btc if anyone can help me solve this problem !

Change the first and second DNS at your network settings to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS servers).
Then go to command prompt and type (start -> run -> CMD):

ipconfig /flushdns

Then start the Ixcoin client.

Worked for me.
Can change them back after downloading the blockchain.

Update?

sorry i am not good at computer but i have tried the following step :

i open : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldftSp2MSvY

and change the dns :

and then i dont know what you mean : Then go to command prompt and type (start -> run -> CMD):! ?

i just go to start -> all programs -> accessories -> command prompt and open it

then i just input : ipconfig /flushdns

then it appear : windows ip configuration

successfully flush the dns resolver cached

and i do closed all the anti virus program and firewall

still no luck cannot get any connection ! 0 connection 0 block

These are the correct steps.

Did you try to reboot your router/modem too?

yes i have restart my modem and router ! and it is still the same result !

0 connection 0 blocks

i tried to msg the founder but he seems no online !

I believe it's just internet. I had the same 0 thing, after switching to another wifi hot spot, I was able to sync all the blocks

i really need help i raise the bounty to 0.20btc for those who can help me solve this problem !

sounds like a connection issue.

have you checked the settings in your ixcoin.conf file?

can you connect to the internet with a web browser?

is the correct port open on your router and firewall for ixcoin?


hope this helps.

If you have not turned off IRC then it should eventually find someone with an open port in the IRC channel. How many hours has it sat there without ever finding a connection?

-MarkM-

i have no problem before i format my computer !

but after i have format my computer and reinstall ixcoin it cannot find any connection !

how to set port forwarding for ixcoin ?

i can connect to any internet browser !

i dont know anything about IRC and i have already open more than 3 days without a single connection !

i tried at any computer at my home result are the same cannot find any connection !

could be a firewall issue ? even i have close antivirus program i still cannot get any connection !

and i have no problem for getting bitcoin and namecoin connection but just ixcoin !

any help ?

Try adding -addnode=198.154.60.183 on the commandline or put addnode=198.154.60.183 in the config file.

-MarkM-

sorry i am totally noob on computer !

i cannot locate ixcoin.conf on my computer ? and how to change it ?

can you guide me more specific ? and how to add -addnode=198.154.60.183 on the commandline ?

any help thank you !

Ok so maybe you are using Windows or Mac or some other kind of Graphical User Interface / Desktop-metaphor?

You should be able to right-click the icon, or the menu, or click on some kind of "edit your menus" or "edit your icons" thing, and see the command that gets run when the icon is clicked or the menu item is picked. It will be a line of text starting with something like "C:/somplace/something/whatever/ixcoin" or "/usr/local/bin/ixcoin" or some such thing. Add the " -addnode=whatever " to that line. If adding it the end causes and error add it right after the "ixcoin" or "ixcoind" (the name of the program". (Notice I included spaces around the -addnode thing, indicating that by put it right after I mean to leave a space between it and the program name and it and whatever else might be after the program name).

If that doesn't help maybe you need someone familiar with your type of desktop-metaphor to walk you through how your desktop works.

You could also try looking in your help or manual system to see if it mentions whether your system has any kind of "find a file by name" function, maybe "file search" or "locate" or "find" or something like that.

Some systems might refer to the edit-an-icon functionality as "properties", where you get to see the "properties" (characteristics) of the icon or of what the icon (or menu item) does or the thing represented or referred to by the icon (or menu item); edit of those characteristics might be inside the routine that displays them to you (the "properties" or "characteristics" type of window/display/popup).

-MarkM-

sorry i did not get it how to do this !

but i want to increase the bountry to 0.30btc who can help me to solve this problem !

Are you using anything like Norton Internet Security? Some of those anti-virus programs can cause problems with programs that connect to the Internet. Try disabling or even uninstalling the antivirus if you have one.

Edit: I see you already tried my above suggestion. What happens when you ping the IP address that mark posted?

Click Start > Type 'cmd' and press enter > Type 'ping 198.154.60.183' and press enter

I noticed that you mentioned none of the computers in your house can connect to Ixcoin. Are they all Windows 7 computers? It's possible that the problem may be with your router.

here is the result when i ping with ping 198.154.60.183

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\joyyen>ping 198.154.60.183

Pinging 198.154.60.183 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 198.154.60.183: bytes=32 time=267ms TTL=56
Reply from 198.154.60.183: bytes=32 time=271ms TTL=56
Reply from 198.154.60.183: bytes=32 time=266ms TTL=56
Reply from 198.154.60.183: bytes=32 time=286ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 198.154.60.183:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 266ms, Maximum = 286ms, Average = 272ms

C:\Users\joyyen>

before i format my computer i have no problem getting blocks and connections but after i have format compute and installed win 7 then i cannot get any connection and block !

and i am using the same modem all the time !

Probably all the hosts in Ixcoin's DNSseeds list and all the fallback IP addresses in its fallback IP addresses are long-dead nodes.

Combine that with the tendency of the IRC network to be down and likely there is your problem.

We are right now, in the DeVCoin thread, working on fixing this problem in DeVCoin, once that is in place I can go on to fix it in Ixcoin and any of the other merged-mined coins whose node lists are long out of date.

All part of the service provided to merged mined altcoins by your friendly neighbourhood merged-mined DeVCoins folk. :)

(DeVCoin's built in subsidies for free open source development pay staff that can help you with this kind of thing, isn't that awesome? If you are merged-mining Ixcoin -or any of the numerous other merged mined coins - how about putting devcoin also into your merge to support free open source projects and developers? :))

-MarkM-

Joyyen open up Ixcoin and click on Settings > Options

Make sure connect through socks proxy is unchecked.

Also try checking/unchecking map port using upnp

Make sure you have the correct client version too: Click Help > About (Should be 0.3.24.30-beta)

I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

my ixcoin version is 0.3.24.30 beta and i tried all option you gave me still no luck !

You can also try to
1) uninstall ixcoin (but keep your old wallet.dat somewhere!),
2) restart computer, then
3) reinstall ixcoin somewhere else (eg. not to c:\Program Files\ixcoin\ but to c:\Program Files\ixcoin2\).
4) Then you run it and watch closely if your firewall/antivirus/whatever asks you some qustion (like "Allow connection for ixcoin").

Wait for several minutes (5-10). If there is a connection then close ixcoin and replace newly created (in step 3 or 4) wallet.dat with the old one (from step 1).
If there is no connection... then right click icon you use for running ixcoin, choose Proerties and change "C:\Program Files\ix...\ixcoinsomething.exe" to "C:\Program Files\ix...\ixcoinsomething.exe -addnode=198.154.60.183". Then try again.
If it do not work then I do not know...

thank you! this fixed my 0 connections problem! Where can i tip?

i still dont know how to do this can you help me ? is it adding to the ixcoin shortcut ?

i am getting this error when i put the command it appear error

the name 'C:\program files\ixcoin2\ixcoin.exe addnode=198.154.60.183` specified in the target box is notvalid make sure the path and the file name are correct.

please help !

You need  a dash before the addnode

C:\program files\ixcoin2\ixcoin.exe -addnode=198.154.60.183

But where are you putting this?  can you type this at the command line.  It should  work from it.

Sounds like someone wants to dump a bunch of Ixcoin... heh

Be ready for that!

You can also put the addnode, without the dash, into the ixcoin,conf config file if you use a config file.

(I do not use config files, I put everything on the command-line in my scripts that start the daemons.)

If you are tipping in bitcoins you can send them to 1EY9iJ1sadwebV16oC1YrY1iXbTCLRwpUh

(That is not some long-standing tip-address it is just an address I created for this occassion. I suppose it will tend to stay in my wallet forever though at least until I do some kind of weird wallet-management of some kind.)

That IP address has all the merged mined coins on it right now, BTC, NMC, DVC, GRP, IXC, I0C, CLC and GG (which maybe should be XGG to make it three characters in accordance with international standards.)

I might move some of the daemons one day though if they start wanting more RAM than that machine has.

-MarkM-

I'm trying to start my first IxCoin wallet, but I can't seem to get the blockchain. Is 198.154.60.183 still the right node to add to an ixcoin.conf? I'm unable to ping it at all; I just get no reply.

If 198.154.60.183 is gone, is there an alternative? Or a web wallet?

Thanks!

It seems maybe one of the two servers has a flaky ethernet cord or card or something, and while they are in there trying to find out the problem and fix it they maybe have unplugged that whole class C net or something. Hopefully that will not take them long.

Also hopefully we won't keep losing packets at the other server once the net does come back up.

(The other server isn't running Ixcoin, they are devcoin servers but since devcoin is merged mined the first server has all the merged mined coins so its p2pool can merged mine them all.)

-MarkM-

Okay, thanks for the update. I'll keep trying!

Hmm the server that had been losing packets when pinged now pings fine, but the other server, the merged mining one, still cannot be reached. I might have to write the hoster asking WTF is going on over there.

-MarkM-

They rebooted the server so now I have to restart all the coin daemons and the p2pool, daemons are started but will take a while to rescan their blockchain before opening for business.

-MarkM-

That's great news, thanks!

Yes, IXCoin is the only wallet that I have problems with.  My situation is that it will load - get 8 connections - load 500 blocks - and then stop.  It'll sit with that particular block count for days.  If I close out the wallet and restart, it will load an additional 500 blocks exactly and then stop again. 

I've re-installed, added the node as described in this thread, and more.  Very strange.

Strangely enough, I had that problem with the Windows wallet, but when I built the wallet from source on Linux, it worked fine. I wonder if the Windows binaries are based on older source code?

I'd bet that you are right.  Unfortunately, the more I look at IXCoin, the more I'm convinced that it is a standing corpse. 

I hope this changes - but - just look at http://www.ixcoin.org/.  Most links are dead and even the Windows wallet available for download is not up-to-date.

You may be right. But as long as I can still merge-mine them and exchange them, I like having a wallet. :)

I'm showing zero connections as well.  Can somebody take a look at this and tell me what I'm doing wrong.

So I go to start menu and type in cmd to open up  the small black command window.  The prompt already has the following:  C:\Users\Vlad> and then I type: \downloads\Ixcoin\ixcoin.exe-addnode=198.154.60.183

The response is:  the system cannot find the path specified.

I tried different variations but I get the same response.  I put the ixcoin wallet download in the downloads section and not in the program files because that's where I keep all my other wallets but that shouldn't matter as it's just a location, right?

I may be  putting this command in the completely wrong place but that's the only place I know which has a command line.  Any help is appreciated.  TIA.

Try adding extra space before dash. ie. not "C:\downloads\Ixcoin\ixcoin.exe-addnode=198.154.60.183" but "C:\downloads\Ixcoin\ixcoin.exe -addnode=198.154.60.183".
If it again cannot find the path try "cd\downloads\Ixcoin" and then "ixcoin.exe -addnode=198.154.60.183".

If we could find some suitable nodes to bake in, we could release new binaries with working seed nodes.

I tried with and without spaces.  I'll try your other recommendation.  Thanks a lot for the prompt response.

Edit:  I tried the cd\downloads\Ixcoin and then the other one you suggested and both (separate and together) result  in an error message:  The system cannot find the path specified.

I don't know, this worked for other people so I'm either doing something wrong or this IP address no longer works.  Thanks for all your help.  Looks like for now the few ixCoins I bought will have to stay in Vircurex with my devcoins.