Ipfs swarm connect doesn't seem to work

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Hello :wave:

I was trying to connect Pinata Cloud to ls and get my own CIDs but didn’t make it work. Here is what I’ve done so far:

[WORKS] IPFS Desktop

  1. Open IPFS Desktop
  2. Click “Peers” tab
  3. Add each 6 addresses of Pinata
  4. Jump to “Files” tab
  5. Search CID: /ipfs/QmVYfNCBqrBHmgniv7NSgntafTXrh53NXSGsCziE8JuJWr
  6. Wait a few mins and you will see the files

[DOES NOT WORK] IPFS CLI

  1. $ ipfs init
  2. $ ipfs daemon - another terminal session
  3. $ watch ipfs bitswap stat - another terminal session
  4. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/fra1-1.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  5. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/fra1-2.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  6. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/fra1-3.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  7. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/nyc1-1.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  8. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/nyc1-2.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  9. $ ipfs swarm connect /dnsaddr/nyc1-3.hostnodes.pinata.cloud
  10. $ ipfs ls /ipfs/QmVYfNCBqrBHmgniv7NSgntafTXrh53NXSGsCziE8JuJWr - almost waited ~10+ mins and nothing happened / bitswap stats did not change

What I’m missing here? Any thoughts? Thanks!

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Doesn’t make the connection stays, if the connection was useless after 20s by default it is closed.
You should use a pinning service that supports automatic content discovery (DHT).
Or follow this guide to “peer” them: Peering with content providers | IPFS Docs

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Thanks for clarifying! Just tried following command but bitswap metrics still shows zero and ls does nothing: :thinking:

$ ipfs swarm peering add /ipfs/QmWaik1eJcGHq1ybTWe7sezRfqKNcDRNkeBaLnGwQJz1Cj /ipfs/QmNfpLrQQZr5Ns9FAJKpyzgnDL2GgC6xBug1yUZozKFgu4 /ipfs/QmPo1ygpngghu5it8u4Mr3ym6SEU2Wp2wA66Z91Y1S1g29 /ipfs/QmRjLSisUCHVpFa5ELVvX3qVPfdxajxWJEHs9kN3EcxAW6 /ipfs/QmPySsdmbczdZYBpbi2oq2WMJ8ErbfxtkG8Mo192UHkfGP /ipfs/QmSarArpxemsPESa6FNkmuu9iSE1QWqPX2R3Aw6f5jq4D5
add QmWaik1eJcGHq1ybTWe7sezRfqKNcDRNkeBaLnGwQJz1Cj success
add QmNfpLrQQZr5Ns9FAJKpyzgnDL2GgC6xBug1yUZozKFgu4 success
add QmPo1ygpngghu5it8u4Mr3ym6SEU2Wp2wA66Z91Y1S1g29 success
add QmRjLSisUCHVpFa5ELVvX3qVPfdxajxWJEHs9kN3EcxAW6 success
add QmPySsdmbczdZYBpbi2oq2WMJ8ErbfxtkG8Mo192UHkfGP success
add QmSarArpxemsPESa6FNkmuu9iSE1QWqPX2R3Aw6f5jq4D5 success

$ ipfs ls /ipfs/QmVYfNCBqrBHmgniv7NSgntafTXrh53NXSGsCziE8JuJWr
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Do they even host this file ?
How do you know pinata is pinning this file ?

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They host this folder. We can check here: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVYfNCBqrBHmgniv7NSgntafTXrh53NXSGsCziE8JuJWr

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Profile settings:
Screen Shot 2022-01-27 at 22.54.02

I can see Pin Status: Pinned info in my files page.

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I face the same problem.
There is content on Machine-A - I can ipfs cat it there. It does not work on Machine-B
So I tried to connect both and did an ipfs id on Machine A - then ipfs swarm connect on the other. Still cannot ipfs cat and interestingly the other machine is also not in the list when ipfs swarm peers