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 75 2019-04-15T17:51:16  <strk> how can I check if network is working ? bitcoin-qt is stuck at "calculating progress increase per hour" and estimated time left
 76 2019-04-15T17:53:05  <bugs_> depending on your version of bitcoin core you can click on help and then
 77 2019-04-15T17:53:22  <bugs_> debug window - then you can look at the network traffic tab or the peers tab
 78 2019-04-15T17:53:41  <strk> Peer=83 is stalling block download, disconnecting
 79 2019-04-15T17:53:46  <strk> found in debug.log, in data dir
 80 2019-04-15T17:54:28  <strk> ok, just 2 peers, maybe that's the problem
 81 2019-04-15T17:54:41  <bugs_> theoretically you should have connections from other peers and receiving
 82 2019-04-15T17:54:43  <bugs_> data from them
 83 2019-04-15T17:54:59  <strk> the number of peers keeps being very low
 84 2019-04-15T17:55:06  <strk> down to 1, then grows up to 5 then back to 1
 85 2019-04-15T17:55:12  <bugs_> thats odd
 86 2019-04-15T17:55:15  <strk> debug.log contains these socket recv error Connection reset by peer (104)
 87 2019-04-15T17:55:30  <strk> can it be the network I'm in enabled some automatic firewall to drop packets to weird ports ?
 88 2019-04-15T17:55:46  <bugs_> yes i'd check into that
 89 2019-04-15T17:55:54  <bugs_> bitcoin uses port 8333
 90 2019-04-15T17:55:58  <bugs_> tcp
 91 2019-04-15T17:56:05  <strk> is it enough to be able to do outbound connections to 8333 ?
 92 2019-04-15T17:56:10  <bugs_> yes
 93 2019-04-15T17:56:31  <strk> netcat shows a success connecting there
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 95 2019-04-15T17:56:45  <strk> but I dunno if communication is successful after the initial connection
 96 2019-04-15T17:56:57  <makkiato> Hello
 97 2019-04-15T17:56:58  <strk> I get lots of these: Peer=122 is stalling block download, disconnecting
 98 2019-04-15T17:57:07  <strk> 2019-04-15T17:56:54Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=571769, peer=127
 99 2019-04-15T17:57:13  <strk> 2019-04-15T17:56:57Z Peer=127 is stalling block download, disconnecting
100 2019-04-15T17:57:19  <strk> it doesn't last much (3 seconds)
101 2019-04-15T17:57:39  <strk> can I try using a different port ?
102 2019-04-15T17:57:57  <strk> and, can I limit the traffic to avoid automatic firewall rules ?
103 2019-04-15T17:58:27  <bugs_> can't use a different port unless you have an external proxy
104 2019-04-15T17:58:50  <bugs_> it sounds like an active firewall that is letting a connection happen so
105 2019-04-15T17:59:05  <bugs_> that it can id the traffic, determines it is bitcoin, and blocks it
106 2019-04-15T17:59:30  <strk> I guess I could setup a proxy
107 2019-04-15T17:59:38  <makkiato> Does anybody here have some experience with the Python library Coincurve (for libsecp256k)?
108 2019-04-15T17:59:50  <strk> never did it though so not sure how easy it is (SOCKS5 proxy on a debian server..)
109 2019-04-15T18:00:20  <bugs_> it would need to be a proxy outside of the culprit firewall
110 2019-04-15T18:00:41  <bugs_> it is also possible that your uplink is saturated with some other traffic
111 2019-04-15T18:01:01  <strk> is socks so easy as an ssh tunnel ?
112 2019-04-15T18:01:07  <strk> (yes, the server is outside)
113 2019-04-15T18:01:31  <bugs_> you mentioned netcat - just as an experiment i might use netcat to do it
114 2019-04-15T18:02:34  <bugs_> if you find that it works then you could look at a proxy with xinetd
115 2019-04-15T18:02:36  <bugs_> or ssh
116 2019-04-15T18:03:41  <strk> how would I use netcat ? sorry I dunno how a socks5 proxy works
117 2019-04-15T18:04:39  <strk> the ssh tunnel seems to work
118 2019-04-15T18:04:54  <bugs_> good - you could google for "netcat proxy" and see several examples
119 2019-04-15T18:05:49  <strk> ssh would also ensure no tool can tell what's in the tunnel
120 2019-04-15T18:06:11  <strk> now for the network limiting part...
121 2019-04-15T18:06:16  <bugs_> yes if the problem is indeed an active firewall and the active firewall
122 2019-04-15T18:06:29  <bugs_> is smart enough it will still block it
123 2019-04-15T18:06:43  <strk> so, trickle to throttle it
124 2019-04-15T18:07:11  <bugs_> well do this in steps - first verify that the proxy solves your immediate
125 2019-04-15T18:07:15  <bugs_> problem - it may not
126 2019-04-15T18:07:59  <strk> proxy did solve it
127 2019-04-15T18:08:04  <strk> (ssh tunnel)
128 2019-04-15T18:08:24  <strk> I can now see the network monitor filling up, and "calculating" is gone (now bitcoin-qt tells me it'll take a few hours)
129 2019-04-15T18:08:25  <bugs_> nice - so some firewall upstream may have sent a nasty gram to your network
130 2019-04-15T18:08:26  <bugs_> admin
131 2019-04-15T18:09:36  <strk> so now, with trickle I limited ssh tunnel bandwidth to 100 Kb/s
132 2019-04-15T18:09:52  <strk> and bitcoin-qt estimates 2 weeks to be in sync
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134 2019-04-15T18:10:11  <bugs_> after it gets going that may drop a bit
135 2019-04-15T18:10:41  <strk> how about incoming connections ? could that possibly be done with this setup ?
136 2019-04-15T18:11:28  <bugs_> i don't think so
137 2019-04-15T18:11:43  <bugs_> it would probably be best to avoid that if you are throttling your bandwidth
138 2019-04-15T18:12:22  <bugs_> you would tie up a slot on any clients that manage to get connected to you
139 2019-04-15T18:12:23  <strk> yeah, maybe that'd also avoid receiving "channel 4: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused" from ssh
140 2019-04-15T18:13:52  <strk> uhm, didn't last much, it looks like the tunnel got blocked
141 2019-04-15T18:13:58  <bugs_> wow
142 2019-04-15T18:14:00  <strk> no, it's still there, just network bursts
143 2019-04-15T18:14:02  <bugs_> or got stuck
144 2019-04-15T18:14:07  <strk> yep, got stuck :)
145 2019-04-15T18:14:26  <bugs_> that is starting to sound more like uplink congestion rather than active
146 2019-04-15T18:14:27  <bugs_> firewall
147 2019-04-15T18:14:35  <bugs_> is someone running torrents on your link ?
148 2019-04-15T18:15:02  <strk> ok, up to speed: 5 stable peers now
149 2019-04-15T18:15:16  <strk> uhm, I dubt it
150 2019-04-15T18:15:26  <strk> but didn't try at sniffing the net
151 2019-04-15T18:15:37  <bugs_> bitcoin full nodes share peer lists and a node likes to go to 8 connections
152 2019-04-15T18:16:00  <strk> mine is down to 3 now :(
153 2019-04-15T18:16:06  <bugs_> is your uplink wireless?
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155 2019-04-15T18:16:17  <strk> yes
156 2019-04-15T18:16:42  <bugs_> perhaps that is where the congestion is - maybe the channel you are using
157 2019-04-15T18:16:51  <bugs_> is filled with other access point traffic
158 2019-04-15T18:17:21  <strk> good point, well but as long as it works I'm happy for it to go up and down
159 2019-04-15T18:17:34  <strk> the point is that when I first joined the client was stuck for some time (with that "calculating" line)
160 2019-04-15T18:17:40  <strk> and all those timeouts
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162 2019-04-15T18:17:48  <strk> but.. what do you mean by uplink ?
163 2019-04-15T18:17:58  <strk> the server I'm tunneling TO is not wireless connected
164 2019-04-15T18:18:02  <strk> the maching running bitcoin-qt is
165 2019-04-15T18:18:14  <bugs_> well if you worked at a company you'd have an "uplink" to an ISP
166 2019-04-15T18:18:26  <bugs_> or at home you'd have some kind of a router or modem going to your ISP
167 2019-04-15T18:18:32  <strk> this is an university
168 2019-04-15T18:18:32  <bugs_> that is what i mean by the uplink
169 2019-04-15T18:18:40  <strk> so the uplink should be cable
170 2019-04-15T18:18:46  <strk> but from laptop to university router that's wifi
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172 2019-04-15T18:19:15  <bugs_> yep - usually a unversity will have an active firewall before their
173 2019-04-15T18:19:22  <bugs_> uplink to the rest of the internet
174 2019-04-15T18:19:36  <bugs_> they will also usually have a guest wireless (which is throttled) and
175 2019-04-15T18:19:47  <bugs_> an authenticated wireless which is less throttled
176 2019-04-15T18:20:15  <bugs_> but in a dorm situation you could have lots of clients using the same
177 2019-04-15T18:20:27  <bugs_> access point and causing the situation you are seeing
178 2019-04-15T18:21:12  <bugs_> each person may have 3 or 4 devices on them - their phone, their watch,
179 2019-04-15T18:21:13  <strk> 5 weeks estimation now... NOT getting better :)
180 2019-04-15T18:21:21  <bugs_> their laptop, and their ipad
181 2019-04-15T18:21:31  <strk> yes, this is exactly the situation
182 2019-04-15T18:21:44  <strk> I could try borrowing the cable, but I'm not sure the switch would let me in
183 2019-04-15T18:21:48  <strk> other than changing the mac
184 2019-04-15T18:21:50  <bugs_> making university wireless too messy to use
185 2019-04-15T18:22:17  <bugs_> you could try syncing up later at night and early morning
186 2019-04-15T18:23:18  <bugs_> if you have a 4G phone sometimes you can use it as a usb connected bridege
187 2019-04-15T18:23:27  <bugs_> bridge to the internet and bypass the university network
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191 2019-04-15T19:03:44  <makkiato> Does anybody here have some experience with the Python library Coincurve (for libsecp256k)? Or even more generally libsecp256c (C library)?
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