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The docs then instruct the user to start their urbit with -p 34543, which is the right port to listen on given the firewall setup, but it's easy for a user to forget that port whenever they run Urbit again. In that case, they end up with a connectivity issue where peers won't hear messages from the user until the other ship sends a message to the user first.
This issue shouldn't exist, but also if a ship is listening on a UDP port that isn't open in the firewall, then all incoming communication will have to be relayed through its sponsor, and that's a loss of both resiliency and sovereignty that should be avoidable by changing the instructions.
@drunkplato has reported that this is a frequent cause of support issues for Holium, specifically for self-hosted people.
I can think of a few things to address this. Not sure which is best:
don't tell people to block all the UDP ports
remind people to always use that -p argument each time they restart Vere
modify Vere to write the -p port into a file and read it on startup (unless overridden by another -p, or maybe with a new arg that clears the configuration) so the user doesn't have to remember. It's not clear this would be a good option, since it implies Vere would have multiple locations of persistent storage, not just inside Arvo. We might decide that's not that bad of a problem, though.
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manual/running/hosting causes confusion about ames ports
manual/running/hosting page causes confusion about ames ports
Aug 15, 2023
In the setup script recommended for self-hosting, it sets up firewall rules that block all UDP ports except for one:
The docs then instruct the user to start their urbit with
-p 34543
, which is the right port to listen on given the firewall setup, but it's easy for a user to forget that port whenever they run Urbit again. In that case, they end up with a connectivity issue where peers won't hear messages from the user until the other ship sends a message to the user first.This issue shouldn't exist, but also if a ship is listening on a UDP port that isn't open in the firewall, then all incoming communication will have to be relayed through its sponsor, and that's a loss of both resiliency and sovereignty that should be avoidable by changing the instructions.
@drunkplato has reported that this is a frequent cause of support issues for Holium, specifically for self-hosted people.
I can think of a few things to address this. Not sure which is best:
-p
argument each time they restart Vere-p
port into a file and read it on startup (unless overridden by another-p
, or maybe with a new arg that clears the configuration) so the user doesn't have to remember. It's not clear this would be a good option, since it implies Vere would have multiple locations of persistent storage, not just inside Arvo. We might decide that's not that bad of a problem, though.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: