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[namecoin]

Does bitcoinj need any full nodes?  Does anyone know about this?  I see BitPay and now Coinbase are already using its BIP 70 feature.  I guess someone's running the 'J' iteration to support the nascent use sent its way.  Anyone know the status on this?

I believe bitcoinj runs in SPV mode.  So i don't think it downloads blockchain.  bitcoinj does have full verification mode, but that mode is experimental.  source: http://bitcoinj.github.io/#getting-started

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[namecoin]

I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it.  The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed.  Did anyone experience similar issue?

I doubt people would ddos a bitcoin node, seeing there are tons of them, and there's little to gain from ddosing a single node. what probably happened was that your VPS provider was overselling its servers, and are using ddos as an excuse.

i sometimes get >100 connections at a time on one of these servers.  could that many simultaneous connections look like a ddos itself to an admin?

thanks, i did not limit the number of connections.  maybe that is why.  i will try limit maxconnections. 

[zvs]

Some VPS companies are pretty crap.

Also a VPS has shared memory (KVMs are a lot better)..  When you say your VPS went down, did the actual machine go down... or was it just not accessible on the net? 

[cypherdoc]

Say I want to update the info on the webgui page (like it shows now, dif IP name etc)

I tried to do this:
I
sudo vim /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py

and I pasted the NEW info (name, wallpaper etc)

THen tapped esc :wq

but it still shows the old stuff. I'm not a linux guy so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Could you help me out? Thanks

The cron job only runs once every 5 minutes. If you want to manually update it when you make changes to btc-update.py, you can run this (assuming this is where you put btc-update.py, otherwise change the directory):

Code:

python /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py

Should this be the only thing in that file:

*/5 * * * * python /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/vnstat -u >/dev/null 2>&1

Yeah those are the 2 jobs you need. The first one runs the btc-update.py script, the 2nd runs vnstat to update your bandwidth usage. You can add this one in there too to start bitcoind if it stops for some reason

Code:

@reboot bitcoind -daemon

Great, thank you so much! I was able to get everything fixed and updated.

http://49Mine.com/

Morblias's implementation is the best to date imo.

The vnstat and bitcoinrpc.py are great "feel good" feedback and monitoring tools.

[chek2fire]

Hello. My server stops running two days now and i cant start it with reboot option. When i try to set

bitcoind

i get an error and it says something that i have to set

bitcoin -nolisten=0

i do that and it has ask me to reconstruct the bitcoin database or something like that. i type yes and now is about 10 hours that do the job? I do something wrong? Do i have to do a clean setup of the node or something like that and how i do that?
Thank you for any advice

[Harley997]

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

There is some risk concentrating them all in the same data-center.

I have idle long-term plans to set up a Bitcoin node in Iceland, which I believe to be relatively Bitcoin friendly. Would be valuable if Bitcoin is ever banned at home.

Wouldn't the same risk be present if the servers that host the nodes are leased by the same provider?

[phillipsjk]

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

There is some risk concentrating them all in the same data-center.

I have idle long-term plans to set up a Bitcoin node in Iceland, which I believe to be relatively Bitcoin friendly. Would be valuable if Bitcoin is ever banned at home.

Wouldn't the same risk be present if the servers that host the nodes are leased by the same provider?

The person I was responding to was talking about spinning up a bunch of identical nodes in the same data-center. Are you asking if 1 server is just as risky as a bunch? I think my point is you don't get the same diversity benefits with all of them in one place.

My "idle long-term plans" are essentially about keeping the network going if the G8 decide to crack down on it. My current ISP prohibits illegal use in their TOS. So if hosting a node becomes illegal, I would have to shut it down: or move it to a more friendly jurisdiction.

[chek2fire]

Hello. My server stops running two days now and i cant start it with reboot option. When i try to set

bitcoind

i get an error and it says something that i have to set

bitcoin -nolisten=0

i do that and it has ask me to reconstruct the bitcoin database or something like that. i type yes and now is about 10 hours that do the job? I do something wrong? Do i have to do a clean setup of the node or something like that and how i do that?
Thank you for any advice

Do you still visually see it rebuilding anything?

I have seen it rebuilts something but after hours i see that the progress was killed.
When i type

bitcoind

it returns this

Error: Unable to bind to 0.0.0.0:8333 on this computer. Bitcoin is probably already running.
Error: Failed to listen on any port. Use -listen=0 if you want this.

[cypherdoc]

Hello. My serveru stops running two days now and i cant start it with reboot option. When i try to set

bitcoind

i get an error and it says something that i have to set

bitcoin -nolisten=0

i do that and it has ask me to reconstruct the bitcoin database or something like that. i type yes and now is about 10 hours that do the job? I do something wrong? Do i have to do a clean setup of the node or something like that and how i do that?
Thank you for any advice

Do you still visually see it rebuilding anything?

I have seen it rebuilts something but after hours i see that the progress was killed.
When i type

bitcoind

it returns this

Error: Unable to bind to 0.0.0.0:8333 on this computer. Bitcoin is probably already running.
Error: Failed to listen on any port. Use -listen=0 if you want this.

Type bitcoind getinfo and tell us what you see

[chek2fire]

if i type

bitcoind getinfo

nothing happens but it stuck and nothing appear to the command line

[chek2fire]

to the log of /var/mail/root i see that

Subject: Cron <root@spirosbitcoin> python /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/btc-update.py", line 7, in <module>
    info = access.getinfo()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bitcoinrpc/authproxy.py", line 120, in __call__
    response = self._get_response()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bitcoinrpc/authproxy.py", line 140, in _get_response
    http_response = self.__conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1045, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 409, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 365, in _read_status
    line = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 476, in readline
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
socket.timeout: timed out

[gweedo]

You need to use the bitcoin-cli to interact with the bitcoind.

Code:

./bitcoin-cli getinfo

[chek2fire]

You need to use the bitcoin-cli to interact with the bitcoind.

Code:

./bitcoin-cli getinfo

I dont have this command in that node. I have see now that i have activity to node server page

http://69.12.86.115/

but i cant get info for the server with

bitcoind getinfo

command

[gweedo]

You need to use the bitcoin-cli to interact with the bitcoind.

Code:

./bitcoin-cli getinfo

I dont have this command in that node. I have see now that i have activity to node server page

http://69.12.86.115/

but i cant get info for the server with

bitcoind getinfo

command

Bitcoin-cli comes in the same zip as bitcoind, and it is the only way way to interact with the bitcoind from the command line.

[chek2fire]

You need to use the bitcoin-cli to interact with the bitcoind.

Code:

./bitcoin-cli getinfo

I dont have this command in that node. I have see now that i have activity to node server page

http://69.12.86.115/

but i cant get info for the server with

bitcoind getinfo

command

Bitcoin-cli comes in the same zip as bitcoind, and it is the only way way to interact with the bitcoind from the command line.

But before two days and for one month now my server works fine and i get info with bitcoind getinfo command.
Do i have to reinstall the node? And how can i do this?

[cypherdoc]

You need to use the bitcoin-cli to interact with the bitcoind.

Code:

./bitcoin-cli getinfo

I dont have this command in that node. I have see now that i have activity to node server page

http://69.12.86.115/

but i cant get info for the server with

bitcoind getinfo

command

If you reboot sometimes you need to wait at least 10 min to access the stats.

Also, the Orlando nodes seem to be temperamental. 

[chek2fire]

But three days now i dont get any info about the server and i think the node is down and i cant get it work

[cypherdoc]

But three days now i dont get any info about the server and i think the node is down and i cant get it work

You may have to re-install.

Assuming you have the PPA already added (if you ran the bitcoinAutoNode.sh script, it is added), all you need to do is

Code:

sudo apt-get remove bitcoind
sudo apt-get install bitcoind

If the PPA isn't added,

Code:

add-apt-repository -y ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove bitcoind
sudo apt-get install bitcoind

[chek2fire]

But three days now i dont get any info about the server and i think the node is down and i cant get it work

Well, it' not down since you linked us to http://69.12.86.115/ it shows 8 active connections.

It could be an issue with the server itself, assuming you did the VPS, correct?

yes i did the vps and i check everyday the node and i have about 40-60 connections. Now i can see to the node page that i have 8 connections but i cant get any info with bitcoind getinfo command
I will check again in one hour to see what happens. If is not working i will try to reinstall bitcoind

[cypherdoc]

But three days now i dont get any info about the server and i think the node is down and i cant get it work

Well, it' not down since you linked us to http://69.12.86.115/ it shows 8 active connections.

It could be an issue with the server itself, assuming you did the VPS, correct?

But he's behind on the block count.

chek, is the block count advancing? 

I had that same thing happen where it was stuck but appeared to be connected.  What does this site say?  https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/