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.