Hi team,
I’ve installed Nym Node on an Oracle Cloud instance, bonded etc. It’s sitting in a public subnet right now, so no routing or igw concerns. It starts up, listens on the correct ports, and my firewall setup is good, both on the server and on the instance security rules. And I see my account showing up on nymtech:
https://explorer.nymtech.net/network-components/nodes/2353
netstat on the server:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.54:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 840/systemd-resolve
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1/init
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 840/systemd-resolve
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 16729/nym-node
tcp6 0 0 :::1790 :::* LISTEN 16729/nym-node
tcp6 0 0 :::1789 :::* LISTEN 16729/nym-node
tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN 1/init
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 1/init
ncat from any remote host (I tried 2):
Ncat: Version 7.92 ( Ncat - Netcat for the 21st Century )
Ncat: Connected to 146.235.211.99:1789.
netstat on the server:
tcp6 0 0 10.0.0.254:1789 47.150.107.165:51498 ESTABLISHED 16729/nym-node
But not seeing any established connections to 1789 (other than my ncat).
It feels like I’m almost there … but still missing something.
Suggestions?
Jeff
make sure you run the node correctly
Initialise and Run:
To initialise and run your node, use this command:
./nym-node run --mode mixnode --public-ips "$(curl -4 https://ifconfig.me)" --accept-operator-terms-and-conditions
Ok, been up and running now for about 8 hours, with the switches you mentioned:
/usr/local/bin/nym-node run --mode mixnode --public-ips 146.235.211.99 --accept-operator-terms-and-conditions
There has been zero change.
Still plenty of action initially on 1790, which dies down pretty rapidly, still not processing mixnet traffic.
2025-03-30T16:59:37.327703Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
2025-03-30T17:00:37.327314Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
2025-03-30T17:01:37.327778Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
2025-03-30T17:02:37.328187Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
You able to see how things are looking at your end, for any clues? Or any further debugging I can do at my end, or help with?
I suspect your ports are closed, you might want to check.
Nope, ports are fine, see my initial post.
8080 is deliberately locked down to my local IP.
As far as I know, the API nodes that collect statistics for validators, blockchain and monitor are located on port 8080. I think you’d better open it.
8080 is used for data metrics and analysis by the various dashboard sites. But does not affect node functionality. My 1789/1790 are both open to the world.
Still not seeing any traffic being processed though.
Mar 31 06:35:02 vcn004inst03 nym-node[72182]: 2025-03-31T06:35:02.946173Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
Mar 31 06:36:02 vcn004inst03 nym-node[72182]: 2025-03-31T06:36:02.946310Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
Mar 31 06:37:02 vcn004inst03 nym-node[72182]: 2025-03-31T06:37:02.946042Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
Mar 31 06:38:02 vcn004inst03 nym-node[72182]: 2025-03-31T06:38:02.946488Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
Mar 31 06:39:02 vcn004inst03 nym-node[72182]: 2025-03-31T06:39:02.946402Z INFO nym-node/src/node/metrics/console_logger.rs:93: ↑↓ Packets sent [total] / sent [acks] / received [mix] / received [gw]: 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d) / 0 (0/d)
Any more thoughts?
then you’d better ask in matrix messenger
I assume you opened the port after all?
Yes, I did. Now seeing lots of data in explorers. What’s the dashboard you are looking at there, can you let me have the URL?
Thanks for the links, had not come across that site.
So right now I"m seeing around 580 long-lived connections to remote hosts on 1789. Looks like my node hooking up with other nodes. Is that kind of number normal, and are they expected to be long-lived, versus transient?
How do things look on your functioning-normally node?
Example:
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:41856 51.159.103.135:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:58506 5.161.121.216:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:48132 104.248.136.140:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:40324 38.7.199.194:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:52656 185.234.67.130:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
tcp 0 0 10.0.0.254:60258 45.120.177.166:1789 ESTABLISHED 72182/nym-node
netstat -anp | grep 1789 | grep ESTAB | wc -l
573
And a similar number to my local 1789, also long-lived. Just looking to sanity-check.
Node will fully mix packets as soon as it enters an active set. what you see is test traffic.
The active node set is generated every hour based on several parameters.
to increase your chances of getting into the active set you should apply for the delegation program
https://delegations.explorenym.net/
not sure if it is still open, but there is always a queue and you will have to wait.
The easiest way is to delegate ~10k nym and put the node in gateway mode.
So building, configuring, and running a node is not enough to have it process actual work? Is that what I’m hearing?
It just makes me eligible to process actual work - if I’m selected for the “active set”?
So for a lot of the time, my node will be doing nothing, other than responding to metrics checking its availability?
Is my understanding correct here?
you should ask these questions to the team in matrix messenger . i am not a support member.
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