A bit more detail on test of picocoin.

picocoin debug netsync &> debug.txt

net: parent exec NC_START
net: have 46188/46188 peers
net: blkdb opened
net: gc'd 0 connections
net: open connections (have 0, want 8 more)
...     [ tries/connects to 8 ips ]
net: parent after NC_START
net: engine started. sleeping 10 minutes (cxn tmout 11 sec)
net: connected to 68.224.[scrubbed]
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message version
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] version(70002, 0x1, 1397475165, To:[scrubbed], From:68.224.[scrubbed], /Satoshi:0.9.0/, 295782)
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message verack
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message alert
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message inv
...     [ first timeout error reported - it's the first ip tried/connected ]
net: gc'd 1 connections
net: open connections (have 7, want 1 more)
...     [ keeps trying connections as previous connections timeout ]
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message inv
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message addr
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] addr(2 addresses, 0 old)
...     [ as before: new made, old dropped ]
...     [ a few ipv6 fails: '' ]
socket connect [scrubbed]:  Network is unreachable
net: failed to start connection to [scrubbed]
...
net: gc'd 1 connections
net: open connections (have 7, want 1 more)
net: connecting to [scrubbed]
net: 68.224.[scrubbed] message inv
net: stopping engine
peerman: 46707 peers to write

(Got 53982 peers last time tried.)


Looked at net connections: netstat -tp | grep picocoin  (ran in loop).

Shows only one ESTABLISHED others are SYN_SENT.

Not likely a firewall block, as picocoin talks to the one.
Connections being ignored?
Get SYN_SENT status only before timeouts; no further SYN-ACK or ACK steps in the connection handshake ...except for the one.

Can get other IPs to connect with block relay daemon (brd). Timeout stderr messages persist, though.

Adding an address which connected with brd doesn't increase number of connections made by picocoin; still speaks only to the one address.

Thanks for today!


(Not complaining, just saying.)