Could Not Connect to IPFS at all this morning
Tried reboot Windows, but still not working
Tried a few previous config…same, it just won’t connect
C:\Users\User>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DESKTOP-D08P37A
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 50-81-40-91-47-D4
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c02d:d258:d8d1:d0b9%8(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 223.16.242.253(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.240.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, February 28, 2022 4:42:54 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, February 28, 2022 7:18:49 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 223.16.240.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.17.8.51
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 223379776
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-28-CA-C6-C9-50-81-40-91-47-D4
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 210.3.59.68
210.3.59.77
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 5C-FB-3A-8D-90-5B
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Never mind, it’s back on again
Sorry for the troubles…
There is only one possible explanation: your computer is haunted 
for your information: i did the following last night to my Brave setting
- set redirect to “On”
- up cache size to 5Gb
i’m pretty sure this is the culprit!
my desktop won’t work in your setting
The browser has to be on the same machine as the node for it to work. Maybe “localhost” isn’t defined on your machine, try and replace that word with “127.0.0.1” instead.
Not working too, both shows the following error
Only a valid IPFS gateway with Origin isolation enabled can be used in Brave
so what you mean the best practice to save files should be like this: directory → directory → directory ->…files (as few as possible)
Yesterday i uploaded close to 200 files (77MB) to the system, in one single directory. Is that bad?
That’s probably still just 1 block, so it’s fine. The block is just the list of files, not the files themselves. The file sizes don’t matter, just how many there are per folder. If the list gets too long, it has to split it into multiple blocks, and that slows things down (more blocks to find/download just to get to the file).
so it’s something like a thousand files in a single directory/folder might slow things down, correct?
It depends on the length of the filenames, if they have short names, you can have more of them than if they have long names. It all has to fit into 1 block, which is about a quarter of a MB.
In the past 30 hours, the system was very unstable. Sometimes it works like a charm but most of the time it returns 504 Gateway Time-out. Besides time-out error, i got this error “internalWebError: promise channel was closed” too
Couldn’t help to wonder why it’s so hard to load something from my own node.
Is there anything i can do to help? Below’s the current ipfs config for your reference.
{
“API”: {
“HTTPHeaders”: {}
},
“Addresses”: {
“API”: “/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001”,
“Announce”: ,
“AppendAnnounce”: ,
“Gateway”: “/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080”,
“NoAnnounce”: ,
“Swarm”: [
“/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001”,
“/ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/4001/quic”
]
},
“AutoNAT”: {},
“Bootstrap”: [
“/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmNnooDu7bfjPFoTZYxMNLWUQJyrVwtbZg5gBMjTezGAJN”,
“/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmQCU2EcMqAqQPR2i9bChDtGNJchTbq5TbXJJ16u19uLTa”,
“/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmbLHAnMoJPWSCR5Zhtx6BHJX9KiKNN6tpvbUcqanj75Nb”,
“/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmcZf59bWwK5XFi76CZX8cbJ4BhTzzA3gU1ZjYZcYW3dwt”,
“/ip4/104.131.131.82/tcp/4001/p2p/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ”,
“/ip4/104.131.131.82/udp/4001/quic/p2p/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ”
],
“DNS”: {
“Resolvers”: {}
},
“Datastore”: {
“BloomFilterSize”: 0,
“GCPeriod”: “1h”,
“HashOnRead”: false,
“Spec”: {
“mounts”: [
{
“child”: {
“path”: “blocks”,
“shardFunc”: “/repo/flatfs/shard/v1/next-to-last/2”,
“sync”: true,
“type”: “flatfs”
},
“mountpoint”: “/blocks”,
“prefix”: “flatfs.datastore”,
“type”: “measure”
},
{
“child”: {
“compression”: “none”,
“path”: “datastore”,
“type”: “levelds”
},
“mountpoint”: “/”,
“prefix”: “leveldb.datastore”,
“type”: “measure”
}
],
“type”: “mount”
},
“StorageGCWatermark”: 90,
“StorageMax”: “10GB”
},
“Discovery”: {
“MDNS”: {
“Enabled”: true,
“Interval”: 10
}
},
“Experimental”: {
“AcceleratedDHTClient”: true,
“FilestoreEnabled”: false,
“GraphsyncEnabled”: false,
“Libp2pStreamMounting”: false,
“P2pHttpProxy”: false,
“StrategicProviding”: false,
“UrlstoreEnabled”: false
},
“Gateway”: {
“APICommands”: ,
“HTTPHeaders”: {
“Access-Control-Allow-Headers”: [
“X-Requested-With”,
“Range”,
“User-Agent”
],
“Access-Control-Allow-Methods”: [
“GET”
],
“Access-Control-Allow-Origin”: [
“*”
]
},
“NoDNSLink”: false,
“NoFetch”: false,
“PathPrefixes”: ,
“PublicGateways”: null,
“RootRedirect”: “”,
“Writable”: false
},
“Identity”: {
“PeerID”: “12D3KooWK5GQfwTovUTHR8Ud2WG4fMWFx644w59g6YAoXvYA278y”,
“PrivKey”: “CAESQPwYl0Ho9KT/Jx9J3eD5pebE/+Ayb/UaaaS+foWu7LW/iYphu8IcjlLRL1LyhxZAfkIIjicmxy9HpcaDRKL2EP4=”
},
“Internal”: {},
“Ipns”: {
“RecordLifetime”: “”,
“RepublishPeriod”: “”,
“ResolveCacheSize”: 128
},
“Migration”: {
“DownloadSources”: ,
“Keep”: “”
},
“Mounts”: {
“FuseAllowOther”: false,
“IPFS”: “/ipfs”,
“IPNS”: “/ipns”
},
“Peering”: {
“Peers”: null
},
“Pinning”: {
“RemoteServices”: {}
},
“Plugins”: {
“Plugins”: null
},
“Provider”: {
“Strategy”: “”
},
“Pubsub”: {
“DisableSigning”: false,
“Router”: “”
},
“Reprovider”: {
“Interval”: “6h”,
“Strategy”: “all”
},
“Routing”: {
“Type”: “dht”
},
“Swarm”: {
“AddrFilters”: null,
“ConnMgr”: {
“GracePeriod”: “60s”,
“HighWater”: 300,
“LowWater”: 50,
“Type”: “basic”
},
“DisableBandwidthMetrics”: false,
“DisableNatPortMap”: true,
“EnableHolePunching”: true,
“RelayClient”: {
“Enabled”: true
},
“RelayService”: {},
“Transports”: {
“Multiplexers”: {},
“Network”: {},
“Security”: {}
}
}
}
There are two ways to improve that (you should do both):
- open port tcp/udp 4001 in your modem’s firewall (and adjust node settings once done)
- re-pin your content in multiple places (my content appears in about 10 separate nodes after I put it up, which makes it instantly discoverable)
how do i re-pin? Using services like Pinata, nft.storage?
Correct. Here is the way I do it for myself:
It all starts on Fleek. My content is managed using git and stored on GitHub. After making a change and pushing it to GitHub, Fleek picks it up automatically, builds it, and puts it up on IPFS.
Next, I re-pin it on my 2 nodes using “ipfs pin update”. The first 1 gets it from Fleek, the second gets it from the first over my LAN (gotta love how IPFS does that).
Next, I re-pin on Piñata using “ipfs pin remote”.
Next, I use “ipfs dag export” on my node to create a .car file, and use “curl” to upload it to web3.storage, where it gets re-pinned on several nodes and backed up on Filecoin.
Once that is done, the content is at least on 10 nodes and gets discovered from pretty much anywhere instantly (even if I shut my nodes down for a while, which can happen).
i installed IPFS Desktop this morning
closed my IPFS CLI daemon as it wouldn’t run simultaneously with IPFS Desktop
imported a folder stored in IPFS CLI into IPFS Desktop
the folder appeared under Files smoothly
when i tried to open the folder, the screen just keep refreshing (see screenshot)
i checked .ipfs folders on my Windows and obviously the blocks are “imported” to the new location, the size confirmed this
i previously posted this scenario on discuss.ipfs.io but didn’t receive any reply about it
I’ve never had that problem before, I have no idea why that would happen. Sorry.
You’re a lifesaver.
i use CAR to upload to nft.storage and import a copy to my node and it works really well. Thanks again