ok guys bug report.
If you have an error when trying to start a masternode 'invalid ip address' it is bug in DMD wallet.
Goto debug console and issue command masternode start-missing
this 100% fixed it for me.
When trying to find the cause of the problem I moved this wallet to 5 different computers (windows xp, 7, 8, 10, server 2012) on 3 different networks and repeated the bug everytime.
Hopefully this will help out some other.
This is strange, since I had no problems with running MN on Windows 7
I too had issues with using the 'start' button in the GUI. I had to start my MN with the console command, start-alias. Not sure why, but it definitely didn't work with GUI, I bashed my head against the wall for hours trying to figure it out, but wallah, the masternode start-alias [alias] started it up immediately.
Also, I noticed that when you start the masternode, it doesn't start immediately counting the online time of the node. It took mine about 5 hours to start correctly showing the online time, not sure if that is an 'issue' or what, but it's just what I noticed.
Another question for devs... (I'm currently reading through the last few pages to see if I can find my own answer, and I did notice the stake pile change and made mine 1000) but I'm having issues with my non-masternode wallet staking. It keeps telling me that staking isn't active... it must be that I did a large stake of the whole amount in the wallet, but how long will this take to start staking again? I even changed to 1000 in config with the noted setting by our beloved CVO... restarted wallet, but still getting staking not active... how long does it take to start working via that setting? What am I missing here?
Thanks!