NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

[gbeirn]

just to check again, so the hallmarked nodes are just overtrusted because they were made by a stakeholder? they are not forging as well ?

Hallmarking makes no difference in forging blocks. It does help the network however

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[gbeirn]

Guys can someone please link me to a proper hallmark thing wiki page where I can get some info on that. I am going all out and installing at least 10 nodes, hallmarked. Just tell me what I can do to help, Not being able to forge is really pissing me off....

https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,607.0.html

personally i would not forge on a VPS.  Its possible for provider to read passphrase in memory that way.  I have 6 halmarked VPSs now, adding more, an only forge on my local PC

Please share the pec of the VPSes I am planning on budgetVM the one with 1024MB burt ram, do you think they will work just fine? The original post suggests 1-2GB.

I have  mix of both 1GB and 2GB, they seem to have no difference as far as I can tell. I set the Java run command with different arguments based on the RAM differences though.

[msin]

Guys can someone please link me to a proper hallmark thing wiki page where I can get some info on that. I am going all out and installing at least 10 nodes, hallmarked. Just tell me what I can do to help, Not being able to forge is really pissing me off....

https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,607.0.html

personally i would not forge on a VPS.  Its possible for provider to read passphrase in memory that way.  I have 6 halmarked VPSs now, adding more, an only forge on my local PC

Good point, although forging on VPS is a lot easier to manage.

[NxtChoice]

Questions on hallmark:

How to set the weight, and the date to get the hallmark?

Should I set the weight as the number of coins in my account?

[Meizirkki]

Why are there so many unconfirmed transactions?

I can see only one unconfirmed. I think it is not working properly for you.

Is it possible the network is split? At the time of writing my earlier post I had 2400 unconfirmed transactions and a "well known" peer 78.46.63.221 was blacklisted (and would blacklist immediately again if I unlisted it). Sometimes the block page would show 800 orphaned blocks too, but it seemed to fix when I reloaded the page.

I restarted the node while ago and I'm seeing very few unconfirmed transactions now.

EDIT: Could have been my fault. I was running a hallmarked node without myaddress specified in web.xml
EDIT2: Is this a bug?

Sorry for the monologue.

I'm now having no other issues except for few major nodes disconnecting me (banning?)

Is this normal?

EDIT: reinstalled nxt and no longer halmarked. everything ok so far

[EmoneyRu]

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here is a nice example (1.721 registered aliases) -> http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=4000&acc=2345678935869777788

cybersquatter  

Yes, I am  
P.S. someone (1484707122620701696) covered my expenses on them. Thanks!

[Come-from-Beyond]

Announcement:
We are moving further on our way to decentralization. Soon I'll stop updating well-known peers in web.xml.
U (community) should cooperate and decide how u will share well-known peers addresses.
I'll make it a bit more convenient to edit the list. This will be a text file next to start.jar.

Sounds great.

Will it be an ip address per line?

We can use both ways.

[MadCow]

I'm running I can see from the block explorer that my NXT client is up to date, but every time I try to send NXT to another account the transaction does not work, but the client 'send' confirmation does pop-up. The transaction does not appear in my transaction history as a fail - it just doesn't appear anywhere. I've tried to register alias names using localhost, and they always fail too.

Is it possible your computer does not have the correct time? You should get your system time from the network. Nxt will reject any transactions with a timestamp that is more than 15 seconds ahead of the network time.

My time is correct. What disturbs me the most is my client always gives me the confirmation message saying my send was successful, but then it never appears in either account.

Because I can receive blocks but not send out transactions, I think it is a networking problem. I don't think i can forge either.

[allwelder]

right?

Code:

24836		9433259657262176905		2013年12月26日 下午1:57:35	
2		99 + 2		272 B	
1		13234224609845419565		2669 %

[Come-from-Beyond]

Does the DDoS cause the nodes to max out their bandwidth on transmit or receive?

Transmit. Some zombies installed in universities eat 10 GiB per hour.

[Anon136]

will transactions without fees get included?

[Come-from-Beyond]

right, i can see it. don't know atm, perhaps a reassignment?
i have to ask cfb tomorrow anyway about the structure like
case sensitive, reassignment, transaction id etc. i have seen
also double naming for the aliases i have registered due to
a reassignment but now it's ok. will check this tomorrow right
after the first coffee.

ps: i am interested in one of your aliases, shall we wait until auction
is ready or do you plan to keep them all? 

Aliases r case-insensitive, but upon assignment users may use big and small letters to distinguish things like BenDover and BendOver.
Each alias has id = id of the very 1st assigning transaction.

[Come-from-Beyond]

will transactions without fees get included?

No

[mezzovide]

Hi, so I've made a super simple init script to manage your linux node. Im testing this code using Centos 6.5

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# nxt daemon
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: nxt daemon
# processname: nxt

DAEMON_PATH="/nxt"

DAEMON=/usr/bin/java
DAEMONOPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -jar start.jar"

NAME=nxt
DESC="NXT java daemon script"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

case "$1" in
start)
	printf "%-50s" "Starting $NAME..."
	cd $DAEMON_PATH
	PID=`$DAEMON $DAEMONOPTS > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!`
	#echo "Saving PID" $PID " to " $PIDFILE
        if [ -z $PID ]; then
            printf "%s\n" "Fail"
        else
            echo $PID > $PIDFILE
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
        fi
;;
status)
        printf "%-50s" "Checking $NAME..."
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            if [ -z "`ps axf | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep`" ]; then
                printf "%s\n" "Process dead but pidfile exists"
            else
                echo "Running"
            fi
        else
            printf "%s\n" "Service not running"
        fi
;;
stop)
        printf "%-50s" "Stopping $NAME"
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            cd $DAEMON_PATH
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
            kill -HUP $PID
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
            rm -f $PIDFILE
        else
            printf "%s\n" "pidfile not found"
        fi
;;

restart)
  	$0 stop
  	$0 start
;;

*)
        echo "Usage: $0 {status|start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

How to use :

1. Put this script under with filename "nxt" under your /etc/init.d/

Code:

nano /etc/init.d/nxt

*copy the script*

make sure to "chmod +x /etc/init.d/nxt" after copying so you can running it at startup

2. Edit some variables inside your script

Code:

DAEMON_PATH="/nxt"

DAEMON=/usr/bin/java
DAEMONOPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -jar start.jar"

I put my nxt folder under /nxt in the root folder, you should change DAEMON_PATH value if u using different path

DAEMON is where your java installation located

You should change your allocated memory for java in DAEMONOPTS

3. Usage

Code:

/etc/init.d/nxt start ( starting daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt stop ( stopping daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt restart ( restart daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt status ( your daemon status )

4. Running this script at startup

Code:

chkconfig nxt on

Feel free to modify it and share so everyone can using it too

Donate Nxt : 6085825983472667622 if u find this script useful. Thanks.

[Come-from-Beyond]

@CfB,
could the latest version be also uploaded under nxtlatest.zip (or similar) filename to make automating downloads easier with bash scripts.

Ok. I may forget a couple of times, remind me, please, if I do.

[opticalcarrier]

Hi, so I've made a super simple init script to manage your linux node. Im testing this code using Centos 6.5

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# nxt daemon
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: nxt daemon
# processname: nxt

DAEMON_PATH="/nxt"

DAEMON=/usr/bin/java
DAEMONOPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -jar start.jar"

NAME=nxt
DESC="NXT java daemon script"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

case "$1" in
start)
	printf "%-50s" "Starting $NAME..."
	cd $DAEMON_PATH
	PID=`$DAEMON $DAEMONOPTS > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!`
	#echo "Saving PID" $PID " to " $PIDFILE
        if [ -z $PID ]; then
            printf "%s\n" "Fail"
        else
            echo $PID > $PIDFILE
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
        fi
;;
status)
        printf "%-50s" "Checking $NAME..."
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            if [ -z "`ps axf | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep`" ]; then
                printf "%s\n" "Process dead but pidfile exists"
            else
                echo "Running"
            fi
        else
            printf "%s\n" "Service not running"
        fi
;;
stop)
        printf "%-50s" "Stopping $NAME"
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            cd $DAEMON_PATH
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
            kill -HUP $PID
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
            rm -f $PIDFILE
        else
            printf "%s\n" "pidfile not found"
        fi
;;

restart)
  	$0 stop
  	$0 start
;;

*)
        echo "Usage: $0 {status|start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

How to use :

1. Put this script under with filename "nxt" under your /etc/init.d/

Code:

nano /etc/init.d/nxt

*copy the script*

make sure to "chmod +x /etc/init.d/nxt" after copying so you can running it at startup

2. Edit some variables inside your script

Code:

DAEMON_PATH="/nxt"

DAEMON=/usr/bin/java
DAEMONOPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -jar start.jar"

I put my nxt folder under /nxt in the root folder, you should change DAEMON_PATH value if u using different path

DAEMON is where your java installation located

You should change your allocated memory for java in DAEMONOPTS

3. Usage

Code:

/etc/init.d/nxt start ( starting daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt stop ( stopping daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt restart ( restart daemon )
/etc/init.d/nxt status ( your daemon status )

4. Running this script at startup

Code:

chkconfig nxt on

Feel free to modify it and share so everyone can using it too

Donate Nxt : 6085825983472667622 if u find this script useful. Thanks.

very cool.  if you could make one that would take hostname argument and then SSH out to do whatever, I bet that would be very bounty worthy.  Beyond my skills though.  Id suggest using SSH keys with passwordless login.

[laowai80]

And more and more people in China following my chinese twitter:weibo
http://weibo.com/nxtcoin

They ask questions,query,beg for first NXT,and many other things.

I give them related links and answers as many as possible.
And I believe that,with more and more chinese players participation,NXT will be really rocket.

So,if some bounty are for chinese newbie,it will be very appreciated and helpful for NXT development.
You can give me a bounty link,I will introduce to chinese newcomers.
Or you can give me the NXT,I will redistribute to all the chinese participator.

You've already come up with a name for NXT in Chinese? Should be a long one, something like 那可色特币  hehe?

[Come-from-Beyond]

gbeirn,

Are you using cssh or equivalent? Without it there is no way I could manage 100+ servers

James

LOL, nope! Just good old SSH to every VPS. I am working on setting up some scripts so it is easier for me to stop and restart the Java process and make updating easier.

I could add an API call to invoke Runtime.exec() with arbitrary command set in web.xml. This is a potential loophole, so it will work only if allowedBotHosts set, password is provided and over https only.

[jimhsu]

And more and more people in China following my chinese twitter:weibo
http://weibo.com/nxtcoin

They ask questions,query,beg for first NXT,and many other things.

I give them related links and answers as many as possible.
And I believe that,with more and more chinese players participation,NXT will be really rocket.

So,if some bounty are for chinese newbie,it will be very appreciated and helpful for NXT development.
You can give me a bounty link,I will introduce to chinese newcomers.
Or you can give me the NXT,I will redistribute to all the chinese participator.

You've already come up with a name for NXT in Chinese? Should be a long one, something like 那可色特币  hehe?

How about 那下币? 下 as in next...

[getfun12345]

We don't support "official" client anymore. Someone should create alt-clients.

Is that means transactions can be encrypted in client? no need to send secret phrase to server node?