Re: Private testnet between PC and VM

Today I took a look at the alert system and wanted to try it on my local tesnet.
For this exercise I generated a new key pair and took a look at the sendalert command. I struggled with minversion and maxversion first, not realizing it needs an interger value instead of string.

I finally figured it out and issued this command:

Code:

sendalert "Alert Message Test" "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" 60000 60000 1 1

Which returned the following:

Code:

{
"strStatusBar" : "Alert Message Test",
"nVersion" : 60013,
"nMinVer" : 60000,
"nMaxVer" : 60000,
"nPriority" : 1,
"nID" : 1
}

That looks okay, except for the nVersion being higher than nMaxVer:-X
And unfortunately for me, I don't see the message being propagated on the testnet. It's not bound to a block. I should be able to see the alert were it the that I used a higher nMaxVer, right? In the status bar of the QT client it's not visible and when issuing getinfo in the debug console, I can't see it either.

My guess is that I indeed made a mistake with nMinVer and nMaxVer.
What version does this value actually corresponds to? The protocol version or client version?

in version.h I can find different versions:

Code:

//
// client versioning
//

static const int CLIENT_VERSION =
1000000 * CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR
+ 10000 * CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR
+ 100 * CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION
+ 1 * CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD;

//
// network protocol versioning
//

static const int PROTOCOL_VERSION = 60013;

// earlier versions not supported as of Feb 2012, and are disconnected
static const int MIN_PROTO_VERSION = 209;

// nTime field added to CAddress, starting with this version;
// if possible, avoid requesting addresses nodes older than this
static const int CADDR_TIME_VERSION = 31402;

// only request blocks from nodes outside this range of versions
static const int NOBLKS_VERSION_START = 60002;
static const int NOBLKS_VERSION_END = 60006;

// BIP 0031, pong message, is enabled for all versions AFTER this one
static const int BIP0031_VERSION = 60000;

// "mempool" command, enhanced "getdata" behavior starts with this version:
static const int MEMPOOL_GD_VERSION = 60002;

My first though was to retry the command, but raising nMaxVer to 60013.
Instead of issuing an alert, it gives me and error:

Code:

sendalert "ALERT ALERT"
"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"
60000 60013 10 2 1

Failed to process alert.
(code -1)

I'm a little confused here. Am I overseeing something?