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Thanks once more for your help theymos.

That's eliminated all error messages with Tor. Now have a stable set number of connections mostly within .onion land 

Our Bitcoin node should be up 24/7 except for an occasional server restart.

Bitcoin only Tor .onion address: bxfna6fhddpzduck.onion


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Right that's simple enough then.

Eventually figured bitcoin.conf must be C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\BitCoin

Had started messing around with the daemon and was getting confused.


Not boot strapping IRC wont cause any connectivity issues then ?

"addr - Provide information on known nodes of the network. Non-advertised nodes should be forgotten after typically 3 hours"

For example; when using maxconnections=10 would I still need to specify a default addnode=192.0.2.X list ?


Thanks again

Hello.

I'm trying to run a dedicated Bitcoin node through my Tor Relay on a Windows Server.

How can I ensure I limit or stop IRC connectivity properly and restrict the number of connected nodes to about 10 ?

I've read the wiki, but its not so clear. What lines exactly should I add to a bitcoin.conf ? That should go in C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin right ?

I've tried a few settings and even correctly mapped some Tor .onion addresses in the Torrc . I don't mind connecting to only .onion address or external IPs

I will happily list my .onion address when its configured properly.

Thanks.