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Title: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: dragospirvu75x on July 10, 2022, 01:58:18 PM
Hello guys. I decided to run full node over Tor and after many tryings I succeeded to do that.
But I get only 1 inbound connection, and rarely 2. I guess that's a problem, it's too low.
Here are my config: https://prnt.sc/gE51xIc-2uRu
Does anyone know if that's okay or what should I change? PS: I use only Tor (not the browser); on bitnodes, my onion address is green.


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: DaveF on July 10, 2022, 03:03:12 PM
This does come up a lot, take a look at these threads and see if anything they discuss may be you issue.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5390367.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5331152.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5309923.0

Also if possible post your configs and other text things here using the
Code:
 
tags. Looking at images works for some of us, but like now when I am on mobile it's far from optimal to see what you posted.

-Dave


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: jackg on July 10, 2022, 03:32:00 PM
I think if you don't get many inbound only connections it means that somewhere is able to handle them faster?

It looks like you've communicated with them anyway so you might be sending and receiving information on things like the mempool to/from them (I'd say blocks but it doesn't look like a block has been received yet unless they are that small).


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: dragospirvu75x on July 10, 2022, 03:43:40 PM
I found the first link, too. I will look on all of them to see what I can do to solve it. Thanks mates for your answers!


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: NotATether on July 11, 2022, 05:45:43 AM
I found the first link, too. I will look on all of them to see what I can do to solve it. Thanks mates for your answers!

I don't think it's much of a problem: I myself only have one TOR peer despite having over 120 inbound/outbound connections.


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: dragospirvu75x on July 11, 2022, 06:05:23 PM
120 connections, that's huge, I reach at the best 30. Okay, good to know, thx!


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: BlackHatCoiner on July 12, 2022, 01:24:13 PM
I don't think it's much of a problem: I myself only have one TOR peer despite having over 120 inbound/outbound connections.
There's probably something wrong, because I'm running a full node with onlynet=onion, and have about 12 inbound/outbound connections.

I think if you don't get many inbound only connections it means that somewhere is able to handle them faster?
I don't think that's common on the onion network. Speed is somewhat the same to every node you connect.


Title: Re: Only 1 inbound connection over Tor, why?
Post by: NotATether on July 13, 2022, 06:26:10 AM
I don't think it's much of a problem: I myself only have one TOR peer despite having over 120 inbound/outbound connections.
There's probably something wrong, because I'm running a full node with onlynet=onion, and have about 12 inbound/outbound connections.

My node is hosted on a fast network, so it's probably the case that more IPv4 nodes are connecting to me than Tor nodes. Seeing as Core will run about 110 inbound peers max to a node (the other 10 are outbound peers), I'm not really surprised at only having one or two tor peers.