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Investigating the frequency of alternative blocks, reorganizations, potential double-spend attacks, selfish mining, and more.
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Document "remote node" setup for MAP servers #47

Open Mitchellpkt opened 6 years ago

Mitchellpkt commented 6 years ago

Hack together a quick wiki page about how to connect to Tokyo as a remote node.

Note, the goal here is to connect data about propagation of transactions that originate at our nodes. R & D purposes.

If you want privacy, I would suggest NOT connecting to one of our nodes operating at --log-level > 9000

neptuneresearch commented 5 years ago

Done

https://github.com/Mitchellpkt/monero_archival_project/wiki/Using-the-Monero-Archival-Project's-Tokyo-remote-node

However, MAP-TOKYO is not yet running as a remote node.

To enable use of MAP-TOKYO as remote node by a wallet, Unrestricted RPC will need to be enabled on port 18081. This will require the following 2 changes on MAP-TOKYO:

  1. Install map_vps_setup_files/monerod-archive-remote-node.conf as /etc/monerod-archive.conf and restart monerod-archive.
  2. Open firewall: sudo ufw allow from any to any port 18081 proto tcp

@serhack @Mitchellpkt , please grant approval for these changes ?

serhack commented 5 years ago

Running a unrestricted RPC is not the best option. Theoretically you could execute any RPC commands described in https://getmonero.org/resources/developer-guides/daemon-rpc.html . That will not cause any critical problems.

But please read Are there risk running a remote node without --restricted-rpc ?. The answer could be yes or no, it's up to you.

The shell commands are okay.

neptuneresearch commented 5 years ago

Oh! I agree with you and I want Restricted mode then.

I was going off the definition of restricted-rpc in the monerod help: "Restrict RPC to view only commands and do not return privacy sensitive data in RPC calls". Here, I thought "view only" would mean it could not receive transactions. I see that is not what this meant.

I just remembered I wrote up documentation on what Restricted RPC actually did. I have posted it here: https://github.com/Mitchellpkt/monero_archival_project/wiki/Monerod-Restricted-RPC-Mode

I have updated map_vps_setup_files/monerod-archive-remote-node.conf to use Restricted RPC Mode.

Steps to resolve this issue:

  1. @Mitchellpkt Approval to open Tokyo as remote node with Restricted RPC?
  2. After approval, implement changes: a. Install map_vps_setup_files/monerod-archive-remote-node.conf as /etc/monerod-archive.conf and restart monerod-archive. b. Open firewall: sudo ufw allow from any to any port 18081 proto tcp