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Networking Documentation Question
Just a question.
I installed Moss on two machines on my local private network, and created a group on Machine A, and tried to Join the group with a different user from Machine B.
It seemed like Machine B couldn't see/connect to the running context of Machine A, in order to join the group. I could see one user online from a group setup from a conference about a month ago, and could join the group.
Are there any basic network requirements like open ports, or whitelists that I need to consider, or any general advice on where to look to debug the networking?
Hi Matthew,
One requirement (at least currently) is that in order to make initial contact, both computers need to reach a bootstrap server on the public internet (who's URL is known by Moss, i.e. no user action required) in order to learn about each others presence before being able to make a direct connection. I don't know whether this was the case in your scenario but if you're saying that you could join a group from a conference a month ago then I'm assuming that you were able to connect to the bootstrap server.
Other than that I am not aware of special network requirements. There have been issues in the past with restrictive firewalls though.
One thing you could do is to check the log files (Help > Open Logs) and see whether you see any networking related errors.
Is this using Moss 0.12.x?
Hi Matthew,
One requirement (at least currently) is that in order to make initial contact, both computers need to reach a bootstrap server on the public internet (who's URL is known by Moss, i.e. no user action required) in order to learn about each others presence before being able to make a direct connection. I don't know whether this was the case in your scenario but if you're saying that you could join a group from a conference a month ago then I'm assuming that you were able to connect to the bootstrap server.
Other than that I am not aware of special network requirements. There have been issues in the past with restrictive firewalls though.
One thing you could do is to check the log files (Help > Open Logs) and see whether you see any networking related errors.
Is this using Moss 0.12.x?
Yes I was using the latest, 0.12.x.
I think this is what you're talking about? https://github.com/holochain/bootstrap
I'm going to review that doc for a bit, b/c I'm pretty sure that was the issue.
I just downloaded and tried out the 0.13.x release and the users were able to join groups, and sync data. I'm assuming that the default https://bootstrap.holo.host worker at the time just wasn't working for some reason.
Anyway, very exciting to see it work. Thanks.