Topic: Maxconnections and Armory (Read 1057 times)
try bind=localhost in bitcoin.conf
Yeah since I'm running dedicated public nodes, I might privatize my local one.
A tweak would be to have armory listen for an incoming connection and only accept one (from localhost).
There is better security in Armory making the connection though. It 100% trusts the local node.
There is better security in Armory making the connection though. It 100% trusts the local node.
You can't reserve a connection as far as I'm aware.
Read up on addnode and connect here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
But you can't use those to connect to armory I think.
My idea would be:
1. I would move your public connections to a different node. And keep this as private node only node almost?
2. Channge this node's conf to connect/addnode to all your other nodes (only).
I have actually been thinking of using such a almost offline wallet where firewall is set to only allow connections from bitcoind to a specific IP on port 8333 to an internet facing node. Everything else is dropped.
You have then
Armory <----> Bitcoind <----> firewall <---> [public facing node bitcond] <----> internet
Everything on the left of the firewall is then basically an offline pc other than the one connection being allowed.
Read up on addnode and connect here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
But you can't use those to connect to armory I think.
My idea would be:
1. I would move your public connections to a different node. And keep this as private node only node almost?
2. Channge this node's conf to connect/addnode to all your other nodes (only).
I have actually been thinking of using such a almost offline wallet where firewall is set to only allow connections from bitcoind to a specific IP on port 8333 to an internet facing node. Everything else is dropped.
You have then
Armory <----> Bitcoind <----> firewall <---> [public facing node bitcond] <----> internet
Everything on the left of the firewall is then basically an offline pc other than the one connection being allowed.
Rpc is used to transmit tho right? That would be hard to do for remote node due to security.
Yes so reserving a connection is paramount then. I run a node to help the network but I also need armory. Increasing my maxconnections hoping it won't fill up will hurt my bandwidth.
Using a trusted remote node once block files aren't needed would be nice. I run other nodes on vps which can take massive connections.
My other option is to stop taking connections to my local one. Our restarting every time. But I don't know it won't work until armory rapidly flashes disconnected and upon restart does a long scan.
Using a trusted remote node once block files aren't needed would be nice. I run other nodes on vps which can take massive connections.
My other option is to stop taking connections to my local one. Our restarting every time. But I don't know it won't work until armory rapidly flashes disconnected and upon restart does a long scan.
Armory uses almost entirely P2P. The RPC is only used if you have Armory manage Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind for you, in which case it basically only uses it to determine & report synchronization state. Beyond that, everything goes through P2P. This makes it agnostic to the backend Bitcoin engine... if someone wants to use a different engine (which doesn't really exist yet), then they can swap it no problem.
That's an overstatement at the moment, since Armory does still rely on the blk*.dat files, but even that will be removed (hopefully soon).
I'm not sure if there's a way to reserve a connection for a given IP address. I bet there is. You could probably find out pretty quickly on the #bitcoin-dev IRC channel. Or just post in the parent forum. Make sure you report back here with the answer, since I'm kind of curious myself.
That's an overstatement at the moment, since Armory does still rely on the blk*.dat files, but even that will be removed (hopefully soon).
I'm not sure if there's a way to reserve a connection for a given IP address. I bet there is. You could probably find out pretty quickly on the #bitcoin-dev IRC channel. Or just post in the parent forum. Make sure you report back here with the answer, since I'm kind of curious myself.
Armory has its own sub-forum 
I have maxconncections=40 and if I get that many connections it seems Armory cant connect. I thought armory used rpc which isnt counted. Getinfo still works so rpc is working.
How do I reserve a connection for armory? I have to keep restarting bitcoind at this point. Is armory using a p2p connection? And raw db? But no rpc?
How do I reserve a connection for armory? I have to keep restarting bitcoind at this point. Is armory using a p2p connection? And raw db? But no rpc?
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