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Title: getconnectioncount Post by: GodlyWizard on April 14, 2018, 05:14:49 PM Code: bitcoin-cli getconnectioncount Is this a high number of connections? How many does your node have? I would also like to know if your node is visible on https://bitnodes.earn.com/ or not, mine shows up there around 9/10 times I check. The same site also says: Quote The crawler maintained by Bitnodes connects from these IP addresses: 136.243.139.96, 136.243.139.120, 2a01:4f8:212:3b1f::2 Are these IP addresses usable with the Code: -addnode=<ip> Title: Re: getconnectioncount Post by: starmyc on April 14, 2018, 07:23:41 PM Code: bitcoin-cli getconnectioncount Is this a high number of connections? How many does your node have? 86 connections is an OK number. By default, bitcoind limits the connection count to 125 (source (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin)). You can change that limit. Mine: Code: $ bin/bitcoin/bin/bitcoin-cli getconnectioncount I would also like to know if your node is visible on https://bitnodes.earn.com/ or not, mine shows up there around 9/10 times I check. Yes. The same site also says: Quote The crawler maintained by Bitnodes connects from these IP addresses: 136.243.139.96, 136.243.139.120, 2a01:4f8:212:3b1f::2 Are these IP addresses usable with the Code: -addnode=<ip> Well, the 8333 port is open, but I think this must be a custom software that will connect to nodes to retrieve other hosts using the getaddr (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#getaddr) call on other nodes, and doing this recursively, periodically checking if nodes it found were still alive. But maybe I'm wrong and this is a full node as well. Only them knows. Title: Re: getconnectioncount Post by: aleksej996 on April 14, 2018, 07:59:45 PM 86 is pretty good in my opinion. My node gets around 30, I think, probably due to low network bandwidth.
It is always visible on the bitnodes.earn.com when I check. You can enable email notifications to tell you when it is down, if you want. As for adding them directly, I don't know. It is probably unnecessary. You might even be slowing them down or limiting them in some way by doing so. Title: Re: getconnectioncount Post by: GodlyWizard on April 17, 2018, 10:18:00 AM Thank you for the answers!
According to their own feature the first address seems to be a full node. However, the second and third (IPv6) addresses return no info. https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/136.243.139.96-8333/ <-- works https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/136.243.139.120-8333/ <-- does not work https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/2a01:4f8:212:3b1f::2-8333/ <-- does not work My connection amount seems to vary quite a bit, within a couple of refreshes it changed from 86 to 92 and then to 93 and back to 92. |