My node (up 24/7) has 6 connections. Same server running bitcoind (average form 100 to 125 connections), blackcoin (average from 90 to 125 connections).
I am not behind a NAT, direct public IP on the server.
Block explorer also showing only 22 connections: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/sdc/#!network
I am not saying that anything is wrong, I just find it strange that such a big market coin has so few nodes running.
If you are behind NAT you are limited to "outbound" peers only i.e. 16 MAX on Shadow/Blk and 8 MAX on Bitcoin (unless you are using upnp)
If you have public IP and correct firewall policy you will start to see "inbound" peers ... You can see from this explorer server that it is connected to over ~110 right now and can observe as much as ~200 daily ( http://explorer.shadow.cash/nodes/ )
Stopping the client, removing peers.dat and restarting should get you back into the game. Most of my nodes (and I run a dozen or so have over 70 peers).
Hi, tnx for the hint. I deleted the peers.dat, shortly after restarting the daemon I am up to 17 connections and climbing fast.
Strange thing though, I dont get it why that would happen. I am running shadowcash node for a year now, never had problems before.
Did the peers.dat get so crowded with dead nodes over time it stopped adding new ones?
Anyway, its fine now