Bootnode's IP address keeps changing

tomaka commented 4 years ago

It turns out that https://github.com/tomaka/redshirt/pull/433 was a bad idea, and the bootnode's IP address keeps changing. I'm unfortunately not super experienced at this.

tomaka commented 4 years ago

I've manually assigned a static IP on DigitalOcean, as a work-around for the bad configuration.

tomaka commented 4 years ago

After look a bit into it, I think the best strategy is:

In the code, use /dnsaddr/ multiaddresses for the bootnode addresses. This is unfortunately not supported by rust-libp2p yet.
Deploy a DNS server that specifically handles these /dnsaddr/ addresses. It took me a couple minutes to find the specs, but here it is.
Update the configuration of the DNS server if a node changes IP.
Derive all the private keys from all bootnodes from a single secret combined with the index of the bootnode. This is already the case as of #489

~~In the meanwhile I'll add bootnode: 0 and bootnode: 1 labels on the Kubernetes nodes, so that pods get assigned their proper IP address.~~

tomaka commented 3 years ago

cc #638

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