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Topic: Keeping a Connection open between 2 Nodes. (Read 179 times)

hero member
Activity: 1106
Merit: 521
October 16, 2019, 04:06:04 PM
#4
I'm not confident with networking settings in bitcoin.conf but try to use these settings.

Connect to this node exclusively (use instead of addnode):
Code:
connect=(node IP)
Maybe it's disconnecting because the old version is misbehaving, try any of these:
Code:
whitelist=(IP)
bantime=5

Also, make sure that bitcoind isn't running in the background while editing your config file.

Thanks for that working a treat now.

This sounds like XY problem, do you have any particular reason to stay use Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 which is outdated? If there aren't any, i suggest you to upgrade your Bitcoin Core.

AFAIK nc50lc suggestion should fix the problem, but if it's not, then try to share your debug.log file

I think it is important that Bitcoin maintains its backward compatability and i want to see that older nodes can always stay connected to the network.
legendary
Activity: 2870
Merit: 7490
Crypto Swap Exchange
October 15, 2019, 12:28:18 PM
#3
This sounds like XY problem, do you have any particular reason to stay use Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 which is outdated? If there aren't any, i suggest you to upgrade your Bitcoin Core.

AFAIK nc50lc suggestion should fix the problem, but if it's not, then try to share your debug.log file
legendary
Activity: 2534
Merit: 6080
Self-proclaimed Genius
October 15, 2019, 07:43:58 AM
#2
I'm not confident with networking settings in bitcoin.conf but try to use these settings.

Connect to this node exclusively (use instead of addnode):
Code:
connect=(node IP)
Maybe it's disconnecting because the old version is misbehaving, try any of these:
Code:
whitelist=(IP)
bantime=5

Also, make sure that bitcoind isn't running in the background while editing your config file.
hero member
Activity: 1106
Merit: 521
October 15, 2019, 03:13:16 AM
#1
I have 2 node on the same network, one is 0.18.1 and the other is older 0.12.0.  I want to get 0.12 to stay connected to 0.18.1 permanently as its only connection for information whats the best way to go about that.

currently i can get them to connect simply by addnode in Conf but after a few minutes 0.18.1 is dropping the connection with 0.12.   Undecided  also how do i stop from connecting to any other node.
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