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[smooth]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

What do you mean "get connected" ?

From the above it looks like you are connected, although incoming connections might be blocked by a firewall. That's not critical to fix unless you are comfortable messing with firewall settings.

[explorer]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

What do you mean "get connected" ?

From the above it looks like you are connected, although incoming connections might be blocked by a firewall. That's not critical to fix unless you are comfortable messing with firewall settings.

it was mentioned that with incoming connections blocked I'm not doing the network any good.  Not that it's a hashing monster,  but every little bit adds up, so if I can, I'd like to do my (little)bit.  Sooner or later I will have a much more substantial hash rate to contribute, but might as well have it figured out before then if I can.  Baby steps.  I'm learning.

[smooth]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

What do you mean "get connected" ?

From the above it looks like you are connected, although incoming connections might be blocked by a firewall. That's not critical to fix unless you are comfortable messing with firewall settings.

it was mentioned that with incoming connections blocked I'm not doing the network any good.  Not that it's a hashing monster,  but every little bit adds up, so if I can, I'd like to do my (little)bit.  Sooner or later I will have a much more substantial hash rate to contribute, but might as well have it figured out before then if I can.  Baby steps.  I'm learning.

Okay in that case you have to make sure that port 18080 is open to the outside world and forwarded to the computer running the node if it is behind a NAT router.

Once you do that and wait a while you should see your incoming connection count start to increase.

[explorer]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

I'll do a little googling, see if I can figure it out from there.

thanks Smooth

UPDATE:
  On the side of my ISP provided router, is a nice little label with a GUI access address, user name, and password.  From there, flying by the seat of my pants, I created some rules that now allow a gratifying number of incoming connections 
 

[smooth]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

It would require knowing a lot more about your particular network.

For a typical home setup you can find more information by looking in google for "how to forward ports".

[GingerAle]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

I'll do a little googling, see if I can figure it out from there.

thanks Smooth

UPDATE:
  On the side of my ISP provided router, is a nice little label with a GUI access address, user name, and password.  From there, flying by the seat of my pants, I created some rules that now allow a gratifying number of incoming connections 
 

Awesome!

If you have the time, would you mind putting together an instructional how-to - either words, pictures, or video? These types of tutorials can be very informative and helpful for others that are coming at the problem with a similar level of knowledge. For instance, how did you find out how to access your router? How did you know which ports to open, and which IP address to forward them to? etc.

[bitebits]

Hi guys, I would like to have some support in making my Monero nodes available as 'external nodes' for simplewallet. This to not have to run the daemon locally if I want to.

MOST OF THE POST DELETED (because of a very thoughtful post of GingerAle).


It does however work when I use the external node from moneroclub.com, simplewallet.exe --daemon-address 94.23.55.211:8880

[wallet xxxxxx]: bc_height
1007284

[explorer]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

I'll do a little googling, see if I can figure it out from there.

thanks Smooth

UPDATE:
  On the side of my ISP provided router, is a nice little label with a GUI access address, user name, and password.  From there, flying by the seat of my pants, I created some rules that now allow a gratifying number of incoming connections 
 

Awesome!

If you have the time, would you mind putting together an instructional how-to - either words, pictures, or video? These types of tutorials can be very informative and helpful for others that are coming at the problem with a similar level of knowledge. For instance, how did you find out how to access your router? How did you know which ports to open, and which IP address to forward them to? etc.

Just a blind chicken, pecking around the yard...  I updated with the info of where I found the router GUI (random search for info) so that others could do the same.  It's all I've got.

Port 18080 was a given.  I looked at the rules in Windows firewall, and the ones in the router GUI, and guessed what to add to the router to make it work.  It did.  Honestly, I have good general problem solving ability, but little idea what I'm doing  I wouldn't necessarily be able to do what I did exactly the same way again, so I'd hate to drag anyone else down my path.

[TaurusBit]

Having syncing issues after upgrading to v0.9.2.0

Code:

2016-Mar-20 23:43:41.271806 [P2P1][94.174.0.11:18080 OUT]Sync data returned unknown top block: 1005891 -> 1006093 [202 blocks (0 days) behind]
SYNCHRONIZATION started
2016-Mar-20 23:44:01.504725 [P2P5]Failed to add block blob to db transaction: MDB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists
2016-Mar-20 23:44:01.504857 [P2P5]ERROR /DISTRIBUTION-BUILD/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp:2716 Error adding block with hash: <b3131cfdc3a3d971ef20ea4e8872ddf85b46bd459964f0ebdd805f58b58602c8> to blockchain, what = Failed to add block blob to db transaction: MDB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists

[explorer]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

I'll do a little googling, see if I can figure it out from there.

thanks Smooth

UPDATE:
  On the side of my ISP provided router, is a nice little label with a GUI access address, user name, and password.  From there, flying by the seat of my pants, I created some rules that now allow a gratifying number of incoming connections 
 

Awesome!

If you have the time, would you mind putting together an instructional how-to - either words, pictures, or video? These types of tutorials can be very informative and helpful for others that are coming at the problem with a similar level of knowledge. For instance, how did you find out how to access your router? How did you know which ports to open, and which IP address to forward them to? etc.

Just a blind chicken, pecking around the yard...  I updated with the info of where I found the router GUI (random search for info) so that others could do the same.  It's all I've got.

Port 18080 was a given.  I looked at the rules in Windows firewall, and the ones in the router GUI, and guessed what to add to the router to make it work.  It did.  Honestly, I have good general problem solving ability, but little idea what I'm doing  I wouldn't necessarily be able to do what I did exactly the same way again, so I'd hate to drag anyone else down my path.

Updated to .9.3  and lost all incoming connections again.  Revisited my last procedure with no luck.  Deleted old rules, replaced them, tried rebooting router, out of ideas for the moment.

[bitebits]

Updated to .9.3  and lost all incoming connections again.  Revisited my last procedure with no luck.  Deleted old rules, replaced them, tried rebooting router, out of ideas for the moment.

The Monero daemon still uses port 18080 for incoming connections, so updating to version 0.9.3 has little to nothing to do with your issue.
You need to post more information, otherwise you can't receive any useful help.

Post a screenshot of the port mapping you have done in your router for example.

[explorer]

Updated to .9.3  and lost all incoming connections again.  Revisited my last procedure with no luck.  Deleted old rules, replaced them, tried rebooting router, out of ideas for the moment.

The Monero daemon still uses port 18080 for incoming connections, so updating to version 0.9.3 has little to nothing to do with your issue.
You need to post more information, otherwise you can't receive any useful help.

Post a screenshot of the port mapping you have done in your router for example.

I don't know what the problem is/was,  but after a while I got 1, and about 10 minutes later it's up to 2 connections, so it is working.  typical used to be 6-9 though.  Checked my sometimes very poor internet connection, and it is good enough, not bad enough to be a limiting factor, at any rate.

edit:

now 3 after 30+ min.  No idea why it is picking up so slow, but its working, so I can ignore it now while it does its thing.

[smooth]

Updated to .9.3  and lost all incoming connections again.  Revisited my last procedure with no luck.  Deleted old rules, replaced them, tried rebooting router, out of ideas for the moment.

The Monero daemon still uses port 18080 for incoming connections, so updating to version 0.9.3 has little to nothing to do with your issue.
You need to post more information, otherwise you can't receive any useful help.

Post a screenshot of the port mapping you have done in your router for example.

I don't know what the problem is/was,  but after a while I got 1, and about 10 minutes later it's up to 2 connections, so it is working.  typical used to be 6-9 though.  Checked my sometimes very poor internet connection, and it is good enough, not bad enough to be a limiting factor, at any rate.

edit:

now 3 after 30+ min.  No idea why it is picking up so slow, but its working, so I can ignore it now while it does its thing.

It's just luck. Other nodes have to pick yours, which depends on a lot of things like when they started, what other nodes are up, etc.

Just being available means you are helping the network. If there are a lot of reachable nodes, then yours won't be needed (or used) that much but if the number drops then yours will be there and helping.

[birr]

I just updated from 9.2.
32bit linux 9.3 won't run for me.

Code:

a@a-1000H:~/monero.linux.x86.v0-9-3-0$ ./bitmonerod
Creating the logger system
2016-Mar-23 11:56:04.829588 Initializing cryptonote protocol...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:04.829851 Cryptonote protocol initialized OK
2016-Mar-23 11:56:04.830654 Initializing p2p server...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.470941 Set limit-up to 2048 kB/s
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.471859 Set limit-down to 8192 kB/s
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.472281 Set limit-up to 2048 kB/s
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.472797 Set limit-down to 8192 kB/s
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.479705 Binding on 0.0.0.0:18080
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.480336 Net service bound to 0.0.0.0:18080
2016-Mar-23 11:56:05.480527 Attempting to add IGD port mapping.
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.486237 No IGD was found.
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.486587 P2p server initialized OK
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.487473 Initializing core rpc server...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.488074 Binding on 127.0.0.1:18081
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.488789 Core rpc server initialized OK on port: 18081
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.488981 Initializing core...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.490195 Loading blockchain from folder /home/a/.bitmonero/lmdb ...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.490391 option: fastest
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.490535 option: async
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.490675 option: 1000
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.491421 Failed to open lmdb environment: Value too large for defined data type
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.491856 Error opening database: Failed to open lmdb environment: Value too large for defined data type
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.492017 Deinitializing rpc server...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.492860 Deinitializing p2p...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.504782 Deinitializing core...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.505695 Closing IO Service.
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.506065 Failed to deinitialize core...
2016-Mar-23 11:56:09.506370 Deinitializing cryptonote_protocol...
a@a-1000H:~/monero.linux.x86.v0-9-3-0$ 

[hyc]

I just updated from 9.2.
32bit linux 9.3 won't run for me.

Haven't ever seen that error before. 32bit works fine for me, self-compiled. I haven't tried the official download, what are you running? My 32bit build is still online https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4bfojf/unofficial_monero_0930_32bit_builds/

[birr]

I just updated from 9.2.
32bit linux 9.3 won't run for me.

Haven't ever seen that error before. 32bit works fine for me, self-compiled. I haven't tried the official download, what are you running? My 32bit build is still online https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4bfojf/unofficial_monero_0930_32bit_builds/

I used this
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.3
When I have time I'll try yours.
Edit:  in the reddit OP I see ARM, but x86 is crossed out.  I am running Ubuntu.

[hyc]

I just updated from 9.2.
32bit linux 9.3 won't run for me.

Haven't ever seen that error before. 32bit works fine for me, self-compiled. I haven't tried the official download, what are you running? My 32bit build is still online https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4bfojf/unofficial_monero_0930_32bit_builds/

I used this
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.3
When I have time I'll try yours.
Edit:  in the reddit OP I see ARM, but x86 is crossed out.  I am running Ubuntu.

It is crossed out but it's still online.

[birr]

Yours works.
It's syncing about 80 blocks per minute now.  Crummy computer, considering it has an SSD.  But I'm only a few thousand blocks behind.

[molecular]

Running .9.2 on windows 64, 100% synced, status says:

 ...v1, up to date, 8+0 connections

can someone give me explicit instructions to get connected?

thanks

I'll do a little googling, see if I can figure it out from there.

thanks Smooth

UPDATE:
  On the side of my ISP provided router, is a nice little label with a GUI access address, user name, and password.  From there, flying by the seat of my pants, I created some rules that now allow a gratifying number of incoming connections 
 

good job. you're really doing your username justice

[Lepra]

hello all
can I ask for some help or info for little probem?
Question is: how can I to proceed if I have an old wallet - from 2014?
I mined monero, bought some and then put in cold wallet.
25 word seed didn't exist in that time
The problem is that old wallet can't synx with new blockchain (flashing for sec. and auto-close)....new wallet can't open old files and keys.
bitmonero wallet v0.8.8.4-771b531
Is there way to get accessto  my coins or its just another crypto ....?

Thanks in advance.