can someone tell me which port numbers and of with protocols (tcp udp) I have to open in my firewall for ipfs daemon to work better? I have asked this on Cannot transfer between two firewalled machines but don’t know if that thread still has support.

ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/Dockerfile FROM golang:1.12-stretch MAINTAINER Lars Gierth <lgierth@ipfs.io> ENV SRC_DIR /go-ipfs # Download packages first so they can be cached. COPY go.mod go.sum $SRC_DIR/ RUN cd $SRC_DIR \ && go mod download COPY . $SRC_DIR # Build the thing. # Also: fix g…

that is more ports then what I thought. thank you

Assuming you’re not trying to expose your daemon’s API/gateway to the public internet, opening port 4001/tcp should be sufficient.

Hi, I am trying to upload a file to the IPFS node which is running in GCP, CentOS 7 (using js-ipfs). this.ipfsApi = ipfsAPI(‘localhost’, ‘5001’) - works fine but this.ipfsApi = ipfsAPI(‘GCP Instance’s IP’, ‘5001’) - does not work and it says connection refused. I have allowed all ports actually, …

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alexandre1985 August 26, 2017, 2:41pm 6

Regards this issue see the answer on Cannot transfer between two firewalled machines - #7 by VictorBjelkholm

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