Ouch >_<
I messed up. Looks like the firewall is enabled by default. I opened port 33550 on both ends with
sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 33550 -j ACCEPT
And got them to see each other:
{
"version" : "v1.1.0.0",
"protocolversion" : 60013,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"newmint" : 0.00000000,
"stake" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 0,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"moneysupply" : 0.00000000,
"connections" : 1,
"proxy" : "",
"ip" : "0.0.0.0",
"difficulty" : {
"proof-of-work" : 0.00001526,
"proof-of-stake" : 0.00001526
},
"testnet" : true,
"keypoololdest" : 1429042310,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00001000,
"mininput" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}
How does it proceed now? Does one of the clients have to "mine" the genesis block to get the testnet blockchain started? Without this, there won't be a new block on the network right? Let's say it works like above, what happens when I shut down both clients? Does that block chain simply dies or does it "resume" as soon as 1 or more clients are connected to each other?
it's correct you need the genesis block first to start the chain, and if you shut down the client it should re-synch until the genesis block, to be sure you could try it, i don't think something bad will happen anyway