Hello. I’ve recently updated my pool to 1.35.6. And now I see that there’s further instructions to follow to enable p2p communications/advertising.
I briefly looked at the instructions of the file modifications and I think I may need some help with getting this accomplished, while also tying up loose ends.
For example, I looked around of for the first file needing this attention, mainnet-config.json. and I don’t see it in my home/cardano-my-node folder. If I do a search, I do see it. It’s inside the git folder /home/“username”/git/cardano-node/configuration/cardano
Is that the referenced file and the correct location?
Also, the config files that are referenced here:
https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments.html
Can they be downloaded and saved to a certain location on a staking server? If so, is the location I refenced above the location to save them to? Or are these files produced during the installation and unique to each server?
I remember these files being put in the cardano-my-node folder. And if that’s the case, can I just copy and paste them from the /home/“username”/git/cardano-node/configuration/cardano folder into the cardano-my-node folder?
Thank you for your help.
Also called config.json some tutorials rename them (Coincashew used to). You should already have a config.json file in your cardano node directory. It wouldn’t run otherwise.
Yes. You’re right. There is a config.json file. I guess that’s unique to my server? Beyond that, there are new files such as mainnet.json, mainnet-topology.json, etc. What are these files in the subfolder of the git folder, and not copied to the cardano-my-node folder? And how are they called upon? The regular topology.json file, for example, is set in the startcardano.sh file.
In addition to this question: I just visited https://explorer.mainnet.cardano.org/relays/topology.json
and I found my server on the list. But the port it has listed is the port number that I thought my block producing node was talking to my relay on, as it dished out a block (no blocks yet). I would have thought that the port listed here would be the port number that is forwarded to the relay as it get blockchain updates? How do I get this straightened out?
Use these links to understand the config.json and topology.json changes you need to make:
You can also seed a couple of preferred relays in the public section of topology.json using this list which is generated from ledger (P2P will anyway choose relays from the ledger weighted by stake distribution):
https://explorer.cardano.org/relays/topology.json
Have you followed a tutorial to set up your stake pool?