I also have trouble to run my Masternodes. The QT tells me that my MN has successfully started and I also can see it in the Nucleus list BUT the timer doesn't count and my MN disappear after an hour, a typical behavior of MNs when they cannot connect.
The Neutrond on my VPS is up and running, the conf is located at ~/.Neutron/Neutron.conf
it contains the following:
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=myuser
rpcpassword=mypassword
server=1
listen=1
port=9999
masternode=1
masternodeaddr=My VPS IP:9999
masternodeprivkey=My Masternode PrivKey
addnode=45.63.18.161:9999
addnode=174.59.176.134:9999
addnode=74.120.130.50:9999
My Local neutron.conf in roaming contains the following:
rpcuser=myuser
rpcpassword=mypassword
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9999
port=9999
server=1
listen=1
maxconnections=56
disablereportupdate=1
addnode=45.63.18.161:9999
addnode=174.59.176.134:9999
addnode=74.120.130.50:9999
I guess there is something missing in one of the confs or I set up something wrong.
Please let me know what it is and how you guys set up your MNs
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Just wanted to let you know I got mine working. First thing I did was forwarded port 9999 (Completely forgot to do it the first time) and I also added:
masternodeaddr=youraddress:your port
masternode=1
masternodeprivkey=(private key here)
to my neutron.conf file
as well as my mastenode.comf file and now the timer on my masternode is ticking. I hope one of the above can help you.