I boot the system and I get around 6 to 19 peer connections, but along the day keeps going down all the way to zero and does not pick back up.
What is going on? what do connections depend on?
I don’t know your setting up but I will make a few guesses.
I assume you are NOT forcing things through Tor.
I also assume you did not poke any holes in your network to allow incoming connections over the clearnet.
So. Either open port 8333 on your router and allow some incoming connection.
or Force traffic through Tor. This is what I do rather than poke holes in my network.
thanks for the help,
I have Clearnet, I2P and Tor enabled.
Did not change anything on the router. The strange thing is that I do get connections, as much as 10 sometimes but they keep dropping and not being stable.
Its better to pass connect=ip:port in custom configuration from a known node and turn off tor and p2p here is a diectory listing: https://bitnodes.io/
you can add as many as you like, but I find that I only need to enter a 4 of them
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This was very helpful, thanks so much. Seems to be working very well.
the p2p and tor connections are junk because of some internet wieners want to block people from establishing Knots nodes. So they littered those connections with i486 nodes on 10M connections.
Where do you input those settings? I see no options under Bitcoin Node.
did not know that. I am reinstalling with knots, used to have core installed.
Sync still slow, but at least I am consistent with the connections.
Once, finished, would you enable Tor and I2P for regular operation? or would just leave it out in clear net?
you put them in the config file on a regular installation,but you would just put it in the configuration overrides unless you dig to find the docker container it is in
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I would just do it for the installation. You don’t really need tor as the block update requests happens by a clear-net and falls back to p2p normally.