Most of our user group, generally with poor Internet connections (4G in the “third world”), have had problems with the default relay set provided by Daedalus (currently only relays-new.cardano-mainnet.iohk.io). I’m looking for a best practice way to set up topology.yaml and maybe config.yaml as static individual files rather than the latest versions in the Nix packages:
$ ps -ef | grep cardano-node
rphair 2104 2042 85 14:16 tty2 00:08:35 cardano-node run --socket-path cardano-node.socket --shutdown-ipc 3 --topology /nix/store/hixr74kkg2m376qzkd9hhs7nhsqkyv4x-node-cfg-files/topology.yaml --database-path chain --port 39515 --config /nix/store/hixr74kkg2m376qzkd9hhs7nhsqkyv4x-node-cfg-files/config.yaml
We are all on Linux, with most at an amateur level: it would be too much to ask for them to check for an updated topology.yaml pathname in ~/.daedalus/nix/store/* after every Daedalus upgrade. If we can move the topology into a static file that’s preserved between upgrades, we can keep their configurations using relays of known good local connectivity. 