In the podcast Loshan calls us LTC friends to run a full node of Litecoin core - for Chickun to arise - especially after the recent update of Litecoin to support light MWEB clients that will rely on people running public full nodes.
And he especially asked to open up incoming port 9333, because otherwise the node seems to be âleech-onlyâ, providing transaction verification only for own transactions.
Question:
1.
what Internet bandwidth (uplink/downlink) will be needed for this public mode with open port 9333?
Because at the moment, I only have a tiny internet connection (ADSL2+ with 2 MBit Uplink/ 16 MBit Downlink). I am looking for a big upgrade (fibre) this year, but until thenâŚ
For testing purposes I also ran a Monero full node. This node clogged my 2 MBit Uplink entirely, so I had to retire it again.
How come the monero node seemed to work as a public node without opening incoming ports for Monero? Is it because Monero is using Tor/Onion routing and therefor doesnât need an incoming open port (e.g. when you have an onion-webserver on a Raspberry Pi, you are also able to reach it from the Internet, even with no incoming ports opened within the router)??
Hey, happy to see that youâre considering running a node.
Itâs pretty hard to estimate how much bandwidth youâd need, as it depends on blocks and peers. If your internet is only 2mbps, Iâd consider just waiting imo.
Iâm really unfamiliar with the Monero full node client and how peering work. Open to learning how they do things.
Hi Chikun friends,
is there a posibility to configure Litecoin core to listen to an incoming port other than 9333, e.g. a port that you obtained from your VPN provider?
In Litecoin Coreâs net.cpp there is some code concerning non-9333 port
// Do not allow non-default ports, unless after 50 invalid
// addresses selected already. This is to prevent malicious peers
// from advertising themselves as a service on another host and
// port, causing a DoS attack as nodes around the network attempt
// to connect to it fruitlessly.
if (addr.GetPort() != Params().GetDefaultPort() && nTries < 50)
continue;
So, if I operate with @Caballa suggestion to use the switch -port=, will my node still be mostly a leeching node, not providing service for others most of the time?
So, am I right with the following assumption:
No port open : only leecher / only verifying own transactions according to @losh11 in the podcast
non-default port : mostly leecher, only when other nodes canât find port 9333 nodes, my node will be used by them
default port 9333 : full participant
running behind Tor Proxy : ??? will my node be leecher except providing service for other Tor users ???
It seems that non-default ports arenât the norm, but also not that uncommonâŚ
to arise - especially after the recent update of Litecoin to support light MWEB clients that will rely on people running public full nodes.