libbitcoin/libbitcoin-server

I need some help for the initial settings of the configuration

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jjmr007 commented

I'm a newbie in these coding issues, so any help is very appreciated.
I want to try on my pc this bitcoin server software, but I don´t know if I set the configuration properly.
I'm using windows 7.
I just download the bs.cfg from the raw data as a .txt file (bs.cfg.txt).

Then I created the directory: C:\ProgramData\libbitcoin then I put there the file, and manually erased the .txt extension.

But when I run in the command line >bs -s I got back a data list in which each parameter seems to lack any setting. They just indicate "<value>". This is the output I got.

Then I run >bs --initchain and try to start the server, obtaining this outcome.

What may I be doing wrong? thanks!

evoskuil commented

The -s option only shows the settings that are available, not the current values. When the server starts up it indicates the path to the config file in use.

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evoskuil commented

This error indicates that less than 100 seed addresses were obtained from seed nodes.

03:53:08.750174 ERROR [network] Error seeding host addresses: unresponsive peer may be throttling

Delete the hosts.cache and try again.

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thecodefactory commented

I've seen this error on occasion also. Simply restarting the server gets it going as well.

jjmr007 commented

Thank you!
I deleted the entire line holding the word hosts.cache and ran bs. It's syncing smoothly so far!

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evoskuil commented

Restarting without deleting the small hosts.cache can work, but it usually results in an inability to find any good host.

jjmr007 commented

Just an ending comment:

I'm still syncing my libbitcoin server. (And it is fine) But meanwhile I tried to perform some fetch commands on bitcoin explorer, and I alway got the error message: connection timed out

I thought that could be related to the fact that the server isn't synced yet. But then I tried deleting the whole configuration line containing hosts.cache in the bx.cfg file as well, and now they're running fine!
(Even with the bs.exe stopped!)

evoskuil commented

bx is configured with a default mainnet server, so you are running queries against it by default:

[server]
url = tcp://mainnet.libbitcoin.net:9091

See bx server settings

Explorer's host cache is unrelated to server queries as the host cache pertains to the P2P network and server queries do not.

bs must be running and at least have its query endpoint enabled:

[server]
query_workers = 1

See bs server settings

Server will respond to queries during sync and response should be very fast regardless.