Hi.
I see that there were about 10 nodes deployed in Amsterdam, yet Grinnode.live currently only shows 3. what could cause this? is that a network issue or a host issue ?
It is not the same code. What you see in Grinnode.live is a count of total inbound and outbound Grin-Nodes connections.
If you want to see a count of all of the nodes you should go here https://nodes.grincc.mw/
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I was going to ask the same question 
Thanks for the info David!
If you are using Grin++ and want to use the nodes, please, find server_config.json file and replace the content with this:
{
"P2P" :
{
"MAX_PEERS" : 60,
"MIN_PEERS" : 8,
"PREFERRED_PEERS" :
[
"188.68.36.183",
"188.68.49.23",
"192.3.153.60",
"217.160.242.228",
"217.160.66.118",
"212.227.210.43",
"93.90.194.26",
"82.165.107.169",
"45.156.22.227",
"45.156.21.8",
"194.116.216.213",
"89.58.0.69",
"23.94.220.240",
"107.175.221.215",
"23.94.105.34",
"107.174.93.181",
"23.94.120.32",
"75.127.9.248",
"107.174.93.165",
"107.174.172.157",
"23.94.220.239",
"75.127.9.247",
"107.174.176.161",
"23.94.216.223",
"23.94.220.238",
"107.174.93.160",
"192.3.153.163",
"66.42.124.255",
"192.3.62.235",
"192.3.254.163",
"23.94.120.31",
"23.94.101.24",
"23.94.107.192",
"23.94.105.33",
"23.94.120.30",
"107.174.63.210",
"149.28.160.219"
]
},
"WALLET" :
{
"DATABASE" : "SQLITE",
"MIN_CONFIRMATIONS" : 8
}
}
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If you are using grin and want to use the nodes, please, find grin-server.toml file, uncomment peers_preferred and replace the content with this:
peers_preferred = ["188.68.36.183", "188.68.49.23", "192.3.153.60", "217.160.242.228", "217.160.66.118", "212.227.210.43", "93.90.194.26", "82.165.107.169", "45.156.22.227", "45.156.21.8", "194.116.216.213", "89.58.0.69", "23.94.220.240", "107.175.221.215", "23.94.105.34", "107.174.93.181", "23.94.120.32", "75.127.9.248", "107.174.93.165", "107.174.172.157", "23.94.220.239", "75.127.9.247", "107.174.176.161", "23.94.216.223", "23.94.220.238", "107.174.93.160", "192.3.153.163", "66.42.124.255", "192.3.62.235", "192.3.254.163", "23.94.120.31", "23.94.101.24", "23.94.107.192", "23.94.105.33", "23.94.120.30", "107.174.63.210", "149.28.160.219"]
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Opening Grin++ after 8 days, port is open, 12 
/ 2 
, list of nodes added , 12K blocks behind, took an hour of syncing.
Not great.
Nice I’m syncing my grin “core” node now, And it is going super slow with low peers. I am going to try this now
If you are in Europe, use this list for Grin++:
{
"P2P":{
"MAX_PEERS":60,
"MIN_PEERS":8,
"PREFERRED_PEERS":[
"188.68.36.183",
"188.68.49.23",
"217.160.242.228",
"217.160.66.118",
"212.227.210.43",
"93.90.194.26",
"82.165.107.169",
"89.58.0.69",
"23.94.220.240",
"23.94.105.34",
"23.94.120.32",
"23.94.220.239",
"23.94.216.223",
"23.94.220.238",
"23.94.120.31",
"23.94.101.24",
"23.94.107.192",
"23.94.105.33",
"23.94.120.30"
]
},
"WALLET":{
"DATABASE":"SQLITE",
"MIN_CONFIRMATIONS":8
}
}
and for grin-wallet in Europe:
peers_preferred = ["188.68.36.183","188.68.49.23","217.160.242.228","217.160.66.118","212.227.210.43","93.90.194.26","82.165.107.169","89.58.0.69","23.94.220.240","23.94.105.34","23.94.120.32","23.94.220.239","23.94.216.223","23.94.220.238","23.94.120.31","23.94.101.24","23.94.107.192","23.94.105.33","23.94.120.30"]
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If you are in America, for Grin++ use this list:
{
"P2P":{
"MAX_PEERS":60,
"MIN_PEERS":8,
"PREFERRED_PEERS":[
"192.3.153.60",
"107.175.221.215",
"192.3.153.163",
"75.127.9.248",
"75.127.9.247",
"107.174.63.210",
"192.3.254.163",
"192.3.62.235",
"66.42.124.255",
"107.174.93.160",
"75.127.9.247",
"107.174.172.157",
"107.174.93.165"
]
},
"WALLET":{
"DATABASE":"SQLITE",
"MIN_CONFIRMATIONS":8
}
}
For grin-wallet in America:
peers_preferred = ["192.3.153.60","107.175.221.215","192.3.153.163","75.127.9.248","75.127.9.247","107.174.63.210","192.3.254.163","192.3.62.235","66.42.124.255","107.174.93.160","75.127.9.247","107.174.172.157","107.174.93.165"]
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For those Grin++ users in Russia and Ukraine:
{
"P2P":{
"MAX_PEERS":60,
"MIN_PEERS":8,
"PREFERRED_PEERS":[
"45.156.22.227",
"45.156.21.8",
"194.116.216.213"
]
},
"WALLET":{
"DATABASE":"SQLITE",
"MIN_CONFIRMATIONS":8
}
}
And for grin-wallet in Russia and Ukraine:
peers_preferred = ["45.156.22.227","45.156.21.8","194.116.216.213"]
Yeah… so why is it still so slow?
I do not know, maybe peers were banned for some reason. What you can do is this:
- Close Grin++
- Delete the content of the peers folder (~/.GrinPP/MAINNET/NODE/DB/PEERS)
- Make sure you are using the Europe list if you are in Europe.
- Open Grin++
Preferred peers means that the node will use that list to try to connect to them initially. You can also change the field name to ALLOWED_PEERS so your node will only connected to the peers in the list, but I do not recommend that.
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Big help for my most recent sync. Cut the initial download time in half, if not more (due to otherwise slow or unreliable peers.)
I will say for the grin-wallet/node you have to add “:3414” at the end of any preferred IP address, otherwise you will get an error on startup from the toml “cannot parse DNS” (or something like that.)
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I’ve mostly been helping by mining but would like to setup a node too.
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