I recently moved house and had to have a new Static WAN IP address. I have opened port 8444 in my router and forwarded it to my computer running the Chia Full Node, but I don’t get any inbound connections. I have run a couple of Open Port Checkers and they both say the port 8444 is open. During the move, my Router did go through a factory reset.
Am I missing something?
How do other nodes know I am up and running?
I seem to remember a couple of years ago when I first started this, it was a faff then.
Is it just a case of waiting a few days?
Should I use this introducer.chia.net and select port 8444?
That sounds like the process that I did. The router I have from my ISP has a section called “NAT/Gaming” under the Firewall tab and in there I have to setup a Hosted Application … which basically does the port forwarding. I did choose TCP/UDP and port 8444… which is why it sounds like you have it configured correctly.
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I think it’s just a matter of waiting. I have now had a couple of incoming connections and in the process I have won a block. So everything else is working.
One thing you can check is to make sure connections can get through to your system from the internet. I use this tool a lot to test that: Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router. Just put in your public IP address (it usually auto detects that and fills it in for you) and port 8444.
Ugh. Nevermind. I totally missed that you said you tried a few open port testers already.
So I know I’m late to the party here, but I have two full node farmers running on my network without any port forwarding and they work just fine. Did your forwarding work? If not, check your router for NAT (network address translation) and make sure it’s enabled. That’s all I need for both of mine to work.