Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: two connections after a restart (July 20, 2009)

I guess something must be preventing you from receiving incoming connections. Mine has been trying to connect to your IP without success. I’m currently connected to 70.113.114.209 since yesterday. If you’re not at least connected to that one, then you can’t connect out either.

I still had no connections, and couldn’t see why not; but I stopped and restarted bitcoin, and now have two connections. Although this is fewer than for some weeks, and I have a clutch of “not confirmed” blocks when for some weeks I had had none, at least it’s up and running again. Previous restarts made no difference, though.

Incidentally, I set the optional transaction fee at 0.07. I expected this to be visible as an outgoing (or as a deduction from blocks created), but so far I’ve seen nothing. Perhaps I’ve had no takers.

Regards,

Nicholas

NBQuote from: Nicholas Bohm on July 19, 2009, 9:23:00 AM UTC

SNQuote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on July 19, 2009, 3:07:00 AM UTC

Did your IP address change? And if so, what’s the new address? I run a node but I can’t accept incoming connections and if your IP address changed then I would have lost contact with you.

My IP address is 217.146.110.206, and hasn’t changed for quite a time as far as I know.

SNQuote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on July 19, 2009, 3:07:00 AM UTC

There may just not be anybody else running it right now. How many connections did you usually have before?

It varied from 3 to 5 mostly.

SNQuote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on July 19, 2009, 3:07:00 AM UTC

If you keep your server running, if new users come along at least they’ll have someone to connect to, rather than get no connections and give up.

I’ll leave it running. No blocks of coins have matured since 15th July.

SNQuote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on July 19, 2009, 3:07:00 AM UTC

(btw, it’s better if you use my satoshin@gmx.com e-mail address)

OK

Regards,

Nicholas