Setting up Bitcoin Qt and opening port 8333 - page 2.

calkob

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so had this up a few hours now and this is the best we can do here on bitcointalk,

Quote from: ranochigo on December 09, 2015, 09:16:53 AM

Quote from: calkob on December 09, 2015, 08:50:42 AM

Hi all could someone give me a brief idea what i need to do to set up my QT as a node. I have downloaded the the blockchain fully and Bitcoin qt is running fine but i am only getting 8 connections and all are outbound. i have logged in to my router and tried to open port 8333 but no luck so far. it asks for a number of inputs, firstly, name which is pretty self explanatory but others like start port and end port which i am quessing is 8333 and 8333 for both? protocal ? TCP,UDP or TCP&UDP and ip address.

also what is connect through socks5 proxy in the bitcoin qt setting has that anything to do with it also?

cheers Wink

Assuming that you're using Windows, go to network and sharing center, press the connection that you are using to connect to internet (Wireless Lan or Wired) and click Details. You should see your IPV4 address (Private IP) right there, input that together with your ports. Protocol is TCP. If it requires a larger range, use 8333 and 8334. To verify, go to https://bitnodes.21.co/ and scroll down.

And no, the socks proxy is only utilized when you want to use a proxy to connect to Bitcoin nodes.

Edit: specified that it's a private and not public IP.

give the wrong information Huh

the ip address for your device is not the ip address bitnodes is looking it is looking your wan ip address which is differant from your devices address.

Quote from: Foxpup on December 09, 2015, 10:32:57 AM

Ignore those who have paid signature ads, as they frequently post misleading nonsense on topics they know nothing about to get their post count up (but then, you probably already know all about that). This has nothing whatsoever to do with having a static or dynamic IP address, as the address you enter is the private IP address of the computer running the Bitcoin node. The method of finding this information varies depending on your OS, but the address should start with 192.168. Start and end ports are both 8333 unless you're doing something unusual, and the protocol is TCP only (not UDP).

Insulted, and acussed of basiclly spamming to get my post count up, so according to you anyone with a sig ad cant be relied upon. its not that they are smart and are getting paid for doing something they would be doing anyway..... Huh

cheers lads great job, and we wonder why there is a shortage of bitcoin nodes? Undecided

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Quote from: pedrog on December 09, 2015, 10:39:54 AM

LOL at "private IP address", whatever that is...

You mean you don't even know what it is? Here, this Wikipedia page will explain it. Until you have read and understood it, don't laugh at your own ignorance. That's for other people to laugh at.

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Quote from: Foxpup on December 09, 2015, 10:32:57 AM

Ignore those who have paid signature ads, as they frequently post misleading nonsense on topics they know nothing about to get their post count up (but then, you probably already know all about that). This has nothing whatsoever to do with having a static or dynamic IP address, as the address you enter is the private IP address of the computer running the Bitcoin node. The method of finding this information varies depending on your OS, but the address should start with 192.168. Start and end ports are both 8333 unless you're doing something unusual, and the protocol is TCP only (not UDP).

LOL at "private IP address", whatever that is...

Of course you need to set up static IP if you're port forwarding, otherwise if/when other IP is attributed to the device you'll need to reconfigure the rule.

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Quote from: Foxpup on December 09, 2015, 10:32:57 AM

Ignore those who have paid signature ads, as they frequently post misleading nonsense on topics they know nothing about to get their post count up (but then, you probably already know all about that). This has nothing whatsoever to do with having a static or dynamic IP address, as the address you enter is the private IP address of the computer running the Bitcoin node. The method of finding this information varies depending on your OS, but the address should start with 192.168. Start and end ports are both 8333 unless you're doing something unusual, and the protocol is TCP only (not UDP).

I try not to mislead people but I probably didn't for this post at least

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I'll delete this in a while unless a moderator comes and sweep me away.

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Ignore those who have paid signature ads, as they frequently post misleading nonsense on topics they know nothing about to get their post count up (but then, you probably already know all about that). This has nothing whatsoever to do with having a static or dynamic IP address, as the address you enter is the private IP address of the computer running the Bitcoin node. The method of finding this information varies depending on your OS, but the address should start with 192.168. Start and end ports are both 8333 unless you're doing something unusual, and the protocol is TCP only (not UDP).

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Quote from: calkob on December 09, 2015, 08:50:42 AM

Hi all could someone give me a brief idea what i need to do to set up my QT as a node. I have downloaded the the blockchain fully and Bitcoin qt is running fine but i am only getting 8 connections and all are outbound. i have logged in to my router and tried to open port 8333 but no luck so far. it asks for a number of inputs, firstly, name which is pretty self explanatory but others like start port and end port which i am quessing is 8333 and 8333 for both? protocal ? TCP,UDP or TCP&UDP and ip address.

also what is connect through socks5 proxy in the bitcoin qt setting has that anything to do with it also?

cheers Wink

Assuming that you're using Windows, go to network and sharing center, press the connection that you are using to connect to internet (Wireless Lan or Wired) and click Details. You should see your IPV4 address (Private IP) right there, input that together with your ports. Protocol is TCP. If it requires a larger range, use 8333 and 8334. To verify, go to https://bitnodes.21.co/ and scroll down.

And no, the socks proxy is only utilized when you want to use a proxy to connect to Bitcoin nodes.

Edit: specified that it's a private and not public IP.

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You need to set up a static IP address in the computer running the node, that's the IP you enter in your router, do it for both tcp and udp.

calkob

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Hi all could someone give me a brief idea what i need to do to set up my QT as a node. I have downloaded the the blockchain fully and Bitcoin qt is running fine but i am only getting 8 connections and all are outbound. i have logged in to my router and tried to open port 8333 but no luck so far. it asks for a number of inputs, firstly, name which is pretty self explanatory but others like start port and end port which i am quessing is 8333 and 8333 for both? protocal ? TCP,UDP or TCP&UDP and ip address.

also what is connect through socks5 proxy in the bitcoin qt setting has that anything to do with it also?

cheers Wink

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