Re: Bitcoin Cash - BCH - Linux "failed after select(): Connection refused"

why you try to do that , to your machine?
, bitcoin only one. and Bitcoin works fine,
Bitcoincash is for noobs and ponzy
Please download Bitcoin core wallet
https://bitcoin.org/es/descargar
cheers

I also have Bitcoin Core on another machine. Works well but I wanted to also explore Bitcoin Cash.

Hi,

I did hit the same issue. And it looks I have a fix.

With no warranty: While having the BitcoinABC client OFF (not running "bitcoin-qt" and/or not running "bitcoind"), just rename the file peers.dat to something else. Then run the client again. It will download new peers from the network and recreate the "peers.dat" file for you.

Technically looks like 111 code aka ECONNREFUSED means that "No-one listening on the remote address." (source https://linux.die.net/man/2/connect). Then by quick check of the bitcoind documentation the only candidate who caches the peers table is the peers.dat file.

Have fun and enjoy your BCH coins :-)

I already tried it. It does not work.

What is your client version?

I was unable to do anything with the new client version 15.x. When downgraded to 14.6 and did the trick with the peers.dat, it started to work.

Had to add a few nodes manually from this list:
https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/?q=Bitcoin%20ABC:0.14.6
Used command: bitcoin-cli "node:port" "add"

Once added them, it started downloading the blockchain. Now, it is already up to date. My client version is 0.15.something.