If string is empty, it shouldnt connect to a daemon at all..

should it? 🤔

<s​omeoneelse495495:matrix.org> It's a weird UX but the point was the localhost:8080 was incorrect, if correcting the port is sufficient, then it's win

<w​oodser:monero.social> hey m​oneromoooo, are you around for a DM?

<w​oodser:monero.social> not sure if it works to DM you from matrix, but I tried

woodser: I an around now.

<w​oodser:monero.social> ok cool, maybe send me a DM?

Can't, your lines come from m-relay, the relaying bot.

Try: /join tmpchanwoodser

(or join that channel by whatever means matrix uses)

woodser: if you need private because security concerns, you can encrypt text with my pubkey from the monero repo, paste the armoured ciphertext to paste.debian.net, and paste the URL here.

Or use hackerone.

<w​oodser:monero.social> I think I messed up joining tmpchanwoodser and now it says the address is in use. sorry do you mind creating a new channel?

Sure, tmpchanwoodser2 now.

woodser you have to join libera using e.g. the web client and then PM mooo web.libera.chat

no other way currently due to missing bridge

<w​oodser:monero.social> ok thanks, was missing that part

Just know that whatever's said in a DM on IRC is visible to IRC ops (modulo pasted GPG, OTR, etc).

I tried to investigate this phenomenon here a bit that probably most people know by now who run a Monero daemon:

[110.40.229.103:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 3095582 -> 4181309 [Your node is 1085727 blocks (4.1 years) behind]

I did not come very far, but I know now that the chain in question has a different genesis block:

Client sent wrong NOTIFY_REQUEST_CHAIN: genesis block mismatch:

id: <011414f4590530b2b8c20667ba03d8ad380810c32de2a5d00dc29f436654bb14>

expected: <418015bb9ae982a1975da7d79277c2705727a56894ba0fb246adaabb1f4632e3>

Block 1 and 2 also seem to be different

Probably someone who forked monero and forgot to change the network id. Can be ignored.

On Reddit some people speculated that this may be an attack of sorts, but doesn't look like it IMHO, with a different genesis block that leads to a very early disconnect

Though seems like a pretty high height, you'd think they'd have noticed by now. Maybe someone very oblivious.

Still interesting how long they claim their blockchain to be, no?

Monero calculates the 4.1 years based on its own block time. It has no idea what the fork uses.

If the fork's data is even trustworthy, which I would not bet on.

Yeah, sure :)

I did this anyway because I had some free time on my hand, not because I thought that this is dangerous, or important

Can you get your network off the ground with the same network id like Monero? Are the checks now so robust that the few fork daemons would find each other among a sea of Monero daemons and hold connection to each other?

Well, they would have their own seed nodes, and could always start from there, I guess