One of two local nodes randomly gone offline

Please, check your port forwarding rule. You now should have two - one for old with 28967 external and 28967 internal ports, and the second with a different external port.
For the second node you can setup port forwarding in two different ways:

  • forward a different external port, for example 28968 to the 28967 but with an IP of your second PC

or

  • forward a different external port, for example 28968 to the 28968 and IP of the second PC. In this case you also need to change the port in the server.address: option of the config file of the second node (assuming it’s Windows GUI too; if it’s a docker, then you need to change only port mapping to -p 28968:28967)

In both cases the external address should include your external port, for example, external.address.tld:28968

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