Title: Testnet not working right now? Post by: arosca on May 21, 2014, 01:05:14 PM For the past 2-3 days I have been unable to send or receive any transactions on testnet. I tried two different Android clients (Tesnet3 and Mycelium) and 3 different machines running Armory/bitcoind on different networks. One of my friends also has this issue.
I suspect I cannot connect to other peers and that's what causes the problem. According to http://blockexplorer.com/testnet (http://blockexplorer.com/testnet) blocks are getting processed though. Is anyone aware of any issues? Any ideas on how I could troubleshoot further? Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: Nicolas Dorier on May 21, 2014, 04:12:52 PM dns nodes are down.
Here some other seeds 95.85.39.28 18333 46.4.106.234 18333 94.102.53.181 18333 5.135.159.139 18333 188.226.138.211 18333 188.165.238.173 18333 46.28.204.15 18333 109.201.135.216 18333 5.9.2.145 18333 46.182.106.2 18333 109.201.154.201 18333 188.165.246.217 18333 108.62.62.235 18333 184.107.180.2 18333 198.50.215.81 18333 188.226.176.87 18333 75.6.237.138 18333 93.93.135.12 18333 54.208.21.132 18333 107.170.107.245 18333 188.230.215.236 18333 46.28.207.68 18333 178.63.106.253 18333 74.207.249.18 18333 54.209.7.19 18333 254.112.255.114 18333 162.216.6.146 18333 88.198.20.152 18333 54.72.131.178 18333 54.84.19.8 18333 162.243.123.220 18333 87.230.26.205 18333 178.63.106.250 18333 78.46.97.16 18333 162.243.141.246 18333 221.249.5.50 18333 69.85.93.216 18333 5.9.119.49 18333 192.161.182.207 18333 37.59.58.130 18333 107.170.35.88 18333 144.76.175.228 18333 15.125.110.219 18333 178.63.14.7 18333 95.85.15.189 18333 117.241.136.198 18333 192.241.204.12 18333 188.122.92.134 18333 148.251.11.118 18333 54.206.106.94 18333 134.60.102.116 18333 54.215.172.225 18333 85.153.13.35 18333 119.81.66.229 18333 Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: arosca on May 21, 2014, 05:57:46 PM That seems to be the problem, thanks! I added one of these seeds as the trusted peer to Testnet3 on Android and I'm connected now.
However, I haven't been able to get Armory to work. I tried all of the following in bitcoin.conf with no success: seednode=95.85.39.28:18333 seednode=95.85.39.28 addnode=95.85.39.28:18333 addnode=95.85.39.28 (one line like that for all of the seeds you provided) Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: arosca on May 22, 2014, 01:46:38 PM Looking at the bitcoind logs, entries like the one below worked (bitcoind is up to date with the latest block). However, Armory doesn't start up for testnet.
addnode=95.85.39.28 Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: arosca on May 22, 2014, 01:48:50 PM Looked into this a bit further. In https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp) there are 6 hardcoded seeds for the main network:
vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bitcoin.sipa.be", "seed.bitcoin.sipa.be")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bluematt.me", "dnsseed.bluematt.me")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("dashjr.org", "dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bitcoinstats.com", "seed.bitcoinstats.com")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bitnodes.io", "seed.bitnodes.io")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("xf2.org", "bitseed.xf2.org")); Whereas testnet only has 2 seeds: vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bitcoin.petertodd.org", "testnet-seed.bitcoin.petertodd.org")); vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("bluematt.me", "testnet-seed.bluematt.me")); Both of which appear to be down as of May 20, 2014. Still, I don't understand why this would bring the testnet client down. Doesn't it keep a list of previously connected peers? Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: Nicolas Dorier on May 22, 2014, 02:06:06 PM arosca, it does for me, maybe there is a timeout period after 3 days or something like that.
Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: dserrano5 on May 22, 2014, 04:50:46 PM Does anyone know how much RAM does a testnet bitcoind use after a few days?
Title: Re: Testnet not working right now? Post by: arosca on May 22, 2014, 06:07:05 PM Does anyone know how much RAM does a testnet bitcoind use after a few days? The memory footprint is minimal. All data is stored on disk (in Berkeley DB files). On my machine (Windows) it uses about 100MB (constant--does not increase over time) |