I’ve just moved house, took 2 weeks of my node being offline but now I’m in and have 1 gigabit up and download speeds. Tried connecting my node but all ports are closed when I check and they have just told me that they implement CGNAT so standard port forwarding won’t work. They’ve shared a link for how to use a reverse proxy for Plex but will this work for my node?
I’m not familiar with Plex. Any TCP reverse proxy should work.
I use the same raspberry pi to host my Plex server as well as the storj node. I’ll give it a go but it seems like quite a bit and could need manual work fairly often
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Ngrok is fine and easy to set up.
The official servers are expensive though, you’ll lose money.
can’t you just order a static ipv4 address with your isp, then they will most likely bypass the CGNAT…
afaik, not super well versed in the various ISP procedures
So I’m giving it a go and opened a tunnel on ngrok, but where do I put the address in the run command? I tried to replace the:
-p 28967:28967/tcp \
with the tunnel address
tcp://2.tcp.eu.ngrok.io:xxxxx
but I got
docker: Invalid ip address tcp://2.tcp.eu.ngrok.io:xxxxx:tcp: address tcp://2.tcp.eu.ngrok.io:xxxxx:tcp:: too many colons in address
See 'docker run --help'.
Can anyone help get it running please?
In the meantime I have contacted my ISP and waiting for them to call back about opting out of CGNAT
Remove the tcp://
part.
Btw, it’s worth asking your ISP for a public IP. Make it clear that you don’t need a static IP, just a public one. Many node operators have been successful in getting their public IP back. Though this may be harder for new connections.
You need to put the ngrok address at -e ADDRESS="
@Erikvv thank you that has allowed me to start the node again!
Just checked the dashboard and there is some data moving now but the QUIC is misconfigured, I guess as UDP isn’t forwarded, is this a big issue? It doesn’t look like ngok will allow it
Nope, not a big issue.
Some ISPs who use CGNAT offer public IPv4 addresses for a fee. I pay £5 for the privilege.
What’s your ISP?
FWIIW, I too recently moved and set up a new ISP. I found that I had to port forward 443/80 to my device hosting the node to get the QUIC to work properly.
How did you do that? Not quite sure what you mean
It’s a new one to the area, Lightspeed. Really fast but I did speak to an engineer and he was very apologetic and understood that they can’t give a separate public IP yet but hopefully in the next 6 months or so that might be an option