I have port 18080 tcp and port 18081 tcp open, is that good for running a public node? Someone on reddit said attackers may be able to access my files? But its reddit so I wanted to confirm.

18080 lets your node participate in txn and block broadcast

18081 means you're offering service to monero wallets

scara, access your files? i think this post details the extent of the risk: "lifars.com/2020/10/are-open-ports-a-security-risk"

particularly, "Open port does not immediately mean a security issue. But, it can provide a pathway for attackers to the application listening on that port."

you generally should use --restricted-rpc for a public node

so if there's a bug in monerod that somehow allowed an attacker to access your files, then yes. but as far as we know, monero doesn't have a bug like that.

but indeed, thats why ppl containerize things afaiui

I know opening ports isn't a security risk but I was thinking maby monero did something dumb like manage keys thru the daemon instead of wallet so I wanted to verify with someone who knows what thay're talking about.

no, monero doesn't do anything so stupid

there's no privacy-sensitive information in monerod that can be stolen by an attacker

all it handles is transaction and block data, which is already broadcasted in public

Ok all I need to do now is wait for it to sync the blockchain "2021-11-26 04:12:37.029 I [207.255.43.131:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 165270 -> 1860748 [Your node is 1695478 blocks (4.8 years) behind]" I hope it takes a bit less then 5 years though.

it'll only feel like 5 years ...

if you're writing to an old HDD, upgrading to an SSD will make a huge difference

Last I checked my HDD was faster.

then your SSD is probably old, full, or just worn out

Hm actually seems to go at about the same rate, probobly my cpu thats the bottleneck since I encrypt.

a standard 7200rpm HDD maxes out at around 120 IOPS. even a dirt cheap SSD is usually above 10000 IOPS

SSD: 1000000000 bytes (1,0 GB, 954 MiB) copied, 43,0947 s, 23,2 MB/s HDD: 1000000000 bytes (1,0 GB, 954 MiB) copied, 45,361 s, 22,0 MB/s

hm. yeah, encryption is prob the bottleneck then

you're going to be waiting a long time

it might be worth protecting whatever other files you've got, but there's no good reason to be using encryption where the blockchain is being stored

I only have 2 drives and yea I'd like my stuff to be encrypted. I have been thinking of getting an extra drive for random stuff like this but it doesn't seem feasable right now.

as long as you're receiving more than 1 block every 2 minutes (which is the nominal network block rate) then technically you will eventually catch up

but it may still take ages. I remember back when I first ported to raspberry pi, I calculated that it would take 8 months to sync 1 year's worth of blockchain data

ouch

hyc: Do you have one of those fancy pies that supports external boot drives?

no, haven't bought any recent pi

I now have a RockPro64 tho

I have a 4 port SATA controller in its PCIe slot and 2 sata SSDs

works well running my LAN's monerod and p2pool

Since when do pis have pcie? Or is it the rockpro? I don't really play around with mini computers, all my stuff is virtual.

rockpro64 yeah has 1 PCIe slot

uses a rockchip rk3399. very nice chip. way better than the broadcom crap that raspberry uses

I think rpis are just popular?

yeah

Lol I just realized that every time I refered to the raspbery pi, I used a diffrent shortening, sorry if thats confuseing.

no prob, was clear

I just can't stand em now. spent too many hours making them work, only to find nobody would ever have the patience to use them for this stuff

just a shitty use of resources

I know someone who uses both, looks like all their cool stuff is on the rock ones. (Tryna find their post rn)

hyc: Ok found it artemislena.eu/posts/2021/05/major-overhaul

Thay use a bit of everything.

heh I still have my original pine64 with that acrylic case

haven't done anything with it since the rockpro64 took over

The estimated time left keeps growing, could someone look at the log ttm.sh/eUd.log

Is it 10 or 3 "2021-11-26 15:49:08.390 I Synced 231724/2210018 (10%, 1978294 left, 3% of total synced, estimated 3.2 months left)"

scara: estimated time remaining will increase because of changes in the protocol over time, more recent blocks are on average bigger and it's been a while since new checkpoints were added

the first 45% go very quickly, slows down from there and very slow the last 5% ? or so

No hard limit on size?

I think that it estimates based on what it has already verified which is why the time will increase

there is a large hard limit and also a blocksize increase needs to be a sustained one or it will incure fee penalties

Not sure if this is the right channel to ask in but is there any technical reason why nfts aren't on monero? And yes I know its a scan just like tulip mania.

scam*

300kB is the no penalty size and virtually all blocks are at or below that

I need to make tulip NFTs

(Quick explaination of tulip mania: Thay sold contracts to recive a tulip in the future and people kept buying these from eachother at increaseingly higher prices untill thay realized that this its worthless)

I guess, technically, any Monero transaction with a note attached could be considered a non-transferrable NFT of sorts, but the privacy characteristiccs of Monero would render that pointless.

scara: what kind of hardware are you using for getting months left as estimate?

selsta: Its built into monerod

yes, what computer are you using

raspberry?

x86

Encrypted?

no, what CPU

and what hard drive

ryzen 5 3600 iirc

ST8000DM004-2CX1

the estimated time remaining works by simply measuring how many blocks you sync per minute

Couldn't remember the module and I also could remember the command to find it but now I found it.

model*

if the time remaining increases it simply means your daemon gets slower at syncing

now why does it get slower? monero usage increased, cryptography got more complex

but even with HDD it shouldn't take months

Bad nodes?

unlikely

which version are you using?

0.16.0.0-2build2

that's super outdated

you need at least v0.17

Its from ubuntu repo...

selsta: github.com/monero-project/monero

there is v0.17 too

I'm on 21.04

well v0.16 in incompatible with the network

is*

so you have to update

Just verify that this is the latest git commit 6d94953be259c6bf4a1407ec552a570a66b6179d

I want to be sure I'm not downloading some fake version.

are you compiling yourself?

yes that's the latest commit

make sure to clone recursively

gitlab.com/whonix/monero-gui <-- can you use this with ubuntu + apt?

Yea, ubuntu has outdated version so what else is there to do?

I'm not useing whonix.

you can also use the linux binaries from getmonero.org

ugh. element won't reconnect to matrix server

2021-11-26 19:11:55.027 I Monero 'Oxygen Orion' (v0.17.3.0-72e778a04)

Good?

It's not 6d94953be259c6bf4a1407ec552a570a66b6179d (at least it doesn't report that) but it's good enough to sync to the current chain AFAIK.