# Stefan Testnet Satellite **URL:** \ **Category:** STORJLINGS\ **Created:** [January 11, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/stefan-testnet-satellite/16787 "2022-01-11T21:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![dragonhogan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/dragonhogan/32/6078_2.png) [@dragonhogan](https://forum.storj.io/u/dragonhogan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/stefan-testnet-satellite/16787/15 "2022-01-12T21:39:13Z")
did anyone else have an issue with the change to the config? > [@littleskunk](#): > > **Join Stefan Testnet Satellite** > If you are running a testnet storage node already please update your config like this: > > ```auto > # list of trust sources > storage2.trust.sources: 1GGZktUwmMKTwTWNcmGnFJ3n7rjE58QnNcRp98Y23MmbDnVoiU@satellite.qa.storj.io:7777,12ZQbQ8WWFEfKNE9dP78B1frhJ8PmyYmr8occLEf1mQ1ovgVWy@testnet.satellite.stefan-benten.de:7777 > > ``` > > If you are not running a testnet storage node yet please don’t forget the other nesessary config changes from here: [Please join our public test network](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-join-our-public-test-network/15954) I had started a testnet node a couple of weeks ago, but ultimately shut it down to repurpose the HDD for another project. Then today I went to spin up a new node on the same machine with a different HDD, with a newly created identity that had never been used before. I went through the config file changes outlined here on the main “join the test net page”: > [@Please join our public test network](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-join-our-public-test-network/15954): > > Let’s answer the most important question first. The test network is unpaid. You will not get any payout from the test satellite. Now you might ask why should I join the satellite if you can’t earn money? Well, you should do it for several reasons: You can make sure your specific setup works with any new version. You will be able to identify possible problems early in the test network. You are welcome to cheat our system. Do you have an idea in mind about how to cheat our audit system but it i… and then when I started the node it didn’t seem to understand the argument about what satellites it should talk to. it started trying to ping only mainnet sats with a bunch of errors. then at one point got a couple of blobs from one of those sats, and didn’t try and ping either testnet sats. I stopped the container and messed with the config file a few times to try the list of trust sources with and without a space between the comma and the stefan address, since the original instructions have it with a space and the instructions here on this page have it without a space (not really sure if that matters or not…) regardless, neither seemed to work each time I would start up the node again. Then decided to just pull off the ,12ZQ…part and only leave the qa sat, which then when I started, it at least tried to ping that QA sat…but still was trying to ping the mainnet ones too…not quite sure what I messed up since I spun up the last testnet node so easily last time when the instructions only had the QA sat. just generated a new identity, and I’m going to clear out the folder/contents on the machine and try it again. thought I’d ask to see if anyone had any thoughts as I continue to trouble shoot. One last note, these issues are on a rpi4 that I used to run a mainnet node on that was migrated to another machine, and then I also ran the first testnet node on this rpi4 a few weeks ago…perhaps I missed deleting some artifact file somewhere… EDIT: I just went back and checked the node I was describing here and it actually seemed to level out and started getting some blobs from 1GG sat…so perhaps I don’t need to wipe and restart. will try and add the stefan sat back into the config and see if it changes behavior… EDIT2: in the end just decided to get a fresh install of everything and reformat all of my disks on this rpi…just got the new node spun up and although I haven’t seen any data yet in the log, looks like it didn’t try and ping any of the mainnet sats. so I think it’s good. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.storj.io/t/stefan-testnet-satellite/16787)._