This is what I see after restarting with some more detailed log options:

Well,I appreciate your help. I was actually hoping I was banned. Haha. I'll try and debug it further on myfirewall and see what the heck is happening, I may also try to reset the ISP's modem/router but it's "supposed" to just be a passthrough. It's a business class line and has been rock solid for many years with no blocking anything that I ever noticed, I've got many VPN's to customers, my own voip, email, webservices and some applications customers use with lots of weirdo ports and alot of bandwidth at times, never has it been an issue.

I tried again, a couple times.
i see it appear for a split second as a peer then it goes away.

I'm using: addnode 73.191.37.221:8333 onetry   ... my understanding is that will try to connect once, if it can't it doesn't retain it as a peer to keep trying later.

It appears not, It looks as though it starts a new debug.log every time you start, so I lost the one where it actually started happening.
I do remember looking at it and it was just spewing messages to the effect that I was mining against and orpahned block. I shut the miner off and it was sitting at 0 outbound and 0 inbound connections. I then restarted it in rescan, 2 days later, nothing, restarted it in reindex after removing a few blocks from the block dir and it took until this morning to sync and it had only 3 outbound. I shut it off then and tried to restart normally, 3-4hours now, no outbound conns.

I tried connecting to your node. No sale. Mine is 71.13.92.62 do I show up in your banned list? I get the feeling that's what's happening. I'm almost inclined to just shut it off for a week and try restarting it then.

I can connect to it via telnet
(I dunno the protocol so no idea what to type, but it connects and waits for me to type ...)
So my firewall or my isp is not blocking.

Here's the log since I restarted after it did manage to sync this morning (at that time it had 3 outbound and it had been running for a week). Then I stopped, moved old debug.log to backup and restarted. It's been several hours and still no outbound connections. I did stop it once in here and removed peers.dat and restarted. That was about an hour ago.
http://snyderworld.org/misc/debug.log

BTW, mines running on ubuntu.

I tired removing peers.dat and restarting.
Doesn't seem to help.
I just watch the inbound/outbound numbers flash from 0 to 1 and back to 0 .
What can I do?!?!?!?!?

I've had a full node running for years, in and out (8333 open).
Also have a testnet full node running as well (18333 open).

Last weekend my mainchain full node stop syncing and kept saying orphaned block in the debug log.
I stopped it, starting it with rescan, no sale. Stopped it, deleted the last few blocks in it's directory and re-started with reindex.
That took daaaaaayyyyssss, until today actually, over 7 days.
So it finally synced, and I noticed during the last few hours of sync, it only had 3 outbound connections.
I tried picking some random nodes from bitnodes and manually adding them via addnode command, all I get is this:

socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)


2018-02-04 16:22:09 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:22:09 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:22:09 connect() to [2001:0:9d38:6abd:281e:3ae8:af4a:9717]:8333 failed: Network is unreachable (101)
2018-02-04 16:22:09 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:22:09 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:22:09 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
 or
2018-02-04 16:20:17 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:20:17 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:20:18 connect() to 51.15.169.94:8333 failed after select(): Connection refused (111)
2018-02-04 16:20:18 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
2018-02-04 16:20:19 socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)


I could manually telnet to those ip's I chose port 8333 and I get a connection

I did have a gekko stick miner that runs solo against this node (lottery) . I suspect it thinks it found something because the first messages were mining against orphaned block. It had been running for over a year.  I stopped this before I restarted in rescan/reindex mode and it hasn't been on since.
I shut my node down and restarted again after sync and now it won't make any outbound connections. it's almost as if my node has been marked as banned or something??
Is there a way to tell if my node is banned? Or why it cannot make any outbound conns? I suspect after time it will pick up those 3 I had after sync and before I shut it down, but..what the heck is happening here? I've no idea why it suddenly stopped/hung on a certain block and now it takes hours to make an outbound connection.
I've mode no changes on my firewall and the  testnet chain node is running just fine the whole time.
It's core 0.15.1

Recover from what? It's still way above where it was just a few weeks ago.

I really don't believe this to be a "drop" in bitcoin price. It's simply a correction back to where it really should be, when you see it rise from $5k to $20k in a matter of weeks...all amid a very crappy transaction throughput and fees with no real fix in sight, .you KNOW it was just quickie investors and of course then a drop is coming, that simply is unsustainable growth in any sector anyway.
I would say, based on where it started going nuts (about the same time as futures trading was announced), price will stabilize around $6-8k.
All my math pans out so long as price doesn't go below $4 or 5k....so, I'm still quite happy, i've never actually bought bitcoin from cash, it's always been mined or paid to me, but I may buy some soon!! The only time I used an exchange was to cash out free BCH. If your math was based on $16 or $20k....i'm sorry for you, but...that's just silly based on where it was just a few weeks ago.
As the old time expert investors say, humans are wired to buy when it's going nuts and bail out when it's dropping, exactly the opposite of what any good investor does. Besides, if your holding bitcoin as a means of investment alone...that may be a mistake in it of itself and at the very least with the past history of extreme volatility, you need to be fully prepared to lose your investment and not get upset about it....   Just my 2 satoshis  

It is not "plummeting".
It is merely going back to a much more normal sustainable growth rate, you really didn't see it coming with a rise from $5000 to $20000 in a matter of weeks? Of course it was going to go back to 5,6,7 or 8k or so.
I'm very happy so long as the price doesn't fall below $5k.

most newer single family homes in the US over 1200sqft are going to have 200amp service which is 48,000 watts, if your running 1600w miners that's about 30 miners, run 20 and you have plenty of power left over for your actual home. 200 amp service entrance is quite common.
YOu can request up to 400amp residential service with no special requirements needed on the homeowners part except of course a 400 amp service entrance. Also, you can have as many meters as you want (pending local codes, some urban municipalities ban this), lots of people have a separate service entrance for their house and say a barn/outbuilding, so you can have 400amps on your house and another 400amp service on your barn, no problem.

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No way I would buy 100 from them. They have shown to a) oversell and then give you the run around about putting it towards new miner when they get some which they can't tell you when,  or refund mabey weeks later b) offer near zero support c) a good percent, ~15%, from what I can tell (from my e9+'s and others) seem to go bad or one of the three boards goes bad d) the sales process is a joke, it's you badgering them via skype for invoices, confirmation of wired money and tracking numbers, they offer nothing up on their own.

c) coupled with b) is atrocious. a) is just criminal. d) is a sign of we have no idea what we're doing, we've never sold anything before

WHy not just say the price?? It's not like it's a car with some dings and problems that need explained.
It either hashes at 13.5-14 or it doesn't, so... the fact that you don't list a price makes the whole thing suspect.

Bitcoin cash is a joke. Centralized coin control. The only reason is has any value is those who wish to buy S9 are forced to buy via BCH. One place holds most the coins so cost is high. Just another bad play by bitmain.

Bitmain doesn't take BCH among others, they force you to use it to buy their miners, it's your only choice. It's the only thing that does take BCH and is pretty much the only thing that is propping up the BCH network. Bitmain is already taken a % (small %) of their pool and mines BCH because almost no one else does.
I for one do not trust a crypto that is wholly mined and used basically by one entity.

I agree core really needs to do something, but it is community coded, so, anyone is free to submit a patch/fix/enhancement on github to the main core code, it's not the responsiblity of the "lead" developers alone, it's only their responsibility to watch for consensus, ensure the code is sound and responsible and merge it in to the main branch. The main issue is, most things talked about to fix BTC is a hard fork, and the consensus of the BTC community and lead developers is to avoid hardforks if at all possible. That's the dilemma with core at the moment, nobody has a good way to "fix" BTC without a hard fork. Feel free to propose it! I didn't much like the idea of segwit2x because it wasn't a permanent fix, upping the blocksize to 2mb only alleviates today's issue with no though to preventing the 2mb from filling. So hardforking for a non-permanent fix is rather silly.

If it does, we're all doomed puppets to be controlled.

The idea of BCH is nice, but, it's controlled and propped up by basically 1 entity which flys in the face of the whole reason crypto's became popular to begin with.

Warranty? That's pretty funny. First you must speak Chinese because you have to call their "hotline". Next you get to hope someone actually answers the hotline (most reports are...no they don't) From the only report I've seen where someone got thru, they asked that person to send their whole miner back, at the customers expense, while admitting they had no replacements. Most of the time one hash board goes bad and they could just send you a new board, but...doesn't look like their service is really worth anything. From reading bitmain threads about their warranty I think it's about the same level of service, barely existent mabey kinda sorta if their in a good mood.
I might hope they would improve this, but, I kinda doubt it.

$100k ... yup, I said it. Especially if they can get the fees/scaling under control.

I read a book a while back on investing, in general. The simple concept of buy low and sell high sounds simple enough. But they had done some scientific studies and basically came to the conclusion that......humans are pre-wired against doing that. Most, can't do it, they see drop...their brain tells them they'd better get out. They see it going through the roof and their brain tells them good time to get in it's going up. The successful investors are two steps ahead of the game at all times and they can steel themselves into not doing stupid things like selling low and buying high.

Yup, I just finally cashed in my free BCH for BTC while BCH was at a high and BTC had dropped. Pump and dump to it's max!!!!

Remember, it's all about the money. Sell your BTC now, fire sale sell sell Mortimer sell !!!  If your having trouble selling your BTC, you can just give me your private keys, I'll take them off your hands.  

It certainly can never be taken seriously with the current fees and wait times even when you pay a decent fee.
But that doesn't mean it's dead. It does mean core better gets off it's a$$ and do something meaningful.