I initially created a Blockchain on one terminal (seed node) and connected another node to it on the same server in another terminal window (using Ubuntu). Everything seemed to work just fine. I stopped and closed each node using the following command:
>sudo multichain-cli [chain-name] stop
I restarted the seed node, old node and connected another (new) node to it. I was able to see the list of peers connected to each other using the getpeerinfo command in the interactive console for the seed node and the new node I created.
This was the result in the new node terminal:
TestChain: getpeerinfo
{"method":"getpeerinfo","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"TestChain"}
[
{
"id" : 3,
"addr" : "196.42.85.144:38782",
"addrlocal" : "172.17.0.1:10120",
"services" : "0000000000000001",
"lastsend" : 1522756542,
"lastrecv" : 1522756542,
"bytessent" : 31078,
"bytesrecv" : 34426,
"conntime" : 1522753298,
"pingtime" : 0.02890800,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/MultiChain:0.1.0.10/",
"handshakelocal" : "197HTjFcMBvVMhcr5438PirwDrsA8QvNwMWL8n",
"handshake" : "1NH8Z36CMtmsi6M4H9adJNLQbfuwdd3Y8rB8Hw",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 77,
"banscore" : 0,
"synced_headers" : 84,
"synced_blocks" : 84,
"inflight" : [
],
"whitelisted" : false
},
{
"id" : 4,
"addr" : "196.42.85.144:39066",
"addrlocal" : "196.42.85.144:10120",
"services" : "0000000000000001",
"lastsend" : 1522756542,
"lastrecv" : 1522756542,
"bytessent" : 28523,
"bytesrecv" : 24282,
"conntime" : 1522753302,
"pingtime" : 0.02883600,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/MultiChain:0.1.0.10/",
"handshakelocal" : "197HTjFcMBvVMhcr5438PirwDrsA8QvNwMWL8n",
"handshake" : "1NH8Z36CMtmsi6M4H9adJNLQbfuwdd3Y8rB8Hw",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 77,
"banscore" : 0,
"synced_headers" : 84,
"synced_blocks" : 84,
"inflight" : [
],
"whitelisted" : false
}
]
And this was the result in the seed node terminal:
TestChain: getpeerinfo
{"method":"getpeerinfo","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"TestChain"}
[
{
"id" : 4,
"addr" : "172.17.0.1:10120",
"addrlocal" : "196.42.85.144:38782",
"services" : "0000000000000001",
"lastsend" : 1522756532,
"lastrecv" : 1522756532,
"bytessent" : 34362,
"bytesrecv" : 31014,
"conntime" : 1522753298,
"pingtime" : 0.07478500,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/MultiChain:0.1.0.10/",
"handshakelocal" : "1NH8Z36CMtmsi6M4H9adJNLQbfuwdd3Y8rB8Hw",
"handshake" : "197HTjFcMBvVMhcr5438PirwDrsA8QvNwMWL8n",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 10,
"banscore" : 0,
"synced_headers" : 77,
"synced_blocks" : -1,
"inflight" : [
],
"whitelisted" : false
},
{
"id" : 5,
"addr" : "196.42.85.144:10120",
"addrlocal" : "196.42.85.144:39066",
"services" : "0000000000000001",
"lastsend" : 1522756532,
"lastrecv" : 1522756532,
"bytessent" : 24218,
"bytesrecv" : 28459,
"conntime" : 1522753302,
"pingtime" : 0.07474200,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/MultiChain:0.1.0.10/",
"handshakelocal" : "1NH8Z36CMtmsi6M4H9adJNLQbfuwdd3Y8rB8Hw",
"handshake" : "197HTjFcMBvVMhcr5438PirwDrsA8QvNwMWL8n",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 20,
"banscore" : 0,
"synced_headers" : 74,
"synced_blocks" : -1,
"inflight" : [
],
"whitelisted" : false
}
]
However, the old node I created previously didn't seem to be able to connect. There was no information output for the getpeerinfo command. This was the result for the old node terminal:
TestChain: getpeerinfo
{"method":"getpeerinfo","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"UCTEnergyChain"}
[
]
I did notice that the seed node address had changed after restarting it. When I created the seed node the address was TestChain@196.42.87.128:6825 and when I restarted the the Blockchain the seed node's address had changed to TestChain@196.42.85.144:6825, which is what I used when connecting the new node. But the old node had been initialized using the previous seed address. Could that be the reason? If so, how can I fix it and prevent it from happening again?
