Second Node Offline

[Speeding_Death]

Hello all,

I have two installations of Storj. They both are on separate PCs. The one works fine and did from the moment I finished installing it. The other installation says offline. I’m sure I’m missing something simple. I have a No-IP DDNS and have ported my router.

Any suggestions? Using a port checker it says the port for my second application is closed. I’ve tried everything I can think of to open it. Is it possible that the storagenode isn’t actually running which causes the port tool to think the port is closed?

Thanks in advance

[nerdatwork]

Is it Windows or Linux and Docker or GUI ?

[Speeding_Death]

Windows. I have Docker installed but I run it with a GUI

[konsou]

What are your port numbers for your nodes? You can’t use the same port number for both.

[Speeding_Death]

28967 & 28968. The second one is the problem child.

[Vadim]

did you made additional port forwarding in router, and opened additional port in windows firewall?
what show logs of second node?
Do you have boath nodes windows GUI?

[Speeding_Death]

I added the additional port to the router and windows firewall. Both nodes were Windows GUI.

I now uninstalled everything and redid Storj via Docker CLI. It is working and showing online now. I’m not sure what the conflict was as I used the same DDNS and port parameters the second time around through Docker.

Thank you all for the responses!

[Alexey]

The difference is how you setup port forwarding.

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 ser…

[Speeding_Death]

One PC is Windows GUI now and the other is docker.

So if I understand the linked thread correctly, while I was running both on Windows GUI, all I needed was to change the original port to 28967 and the forward-to-port to 28968 in my router for the second node?

[Alexey]

Yes, either that or forward 28968 to 28967 and IP of your second PC with the second node.
However in both cases the external address should remain my.external.address:28968