Saturday, July 6, 2024

bitcoin core – Listening Node behind CG-NAT

My router is behind a CG-NAT protocol.

I believe this given my WAN IP and my public IP are completely different.

This prevents me from working a full listening node provided that my public IP isn’t uniquely figuring out me.

In consequence exposing port 8333 on router doesn’t allow inbound node connections.

Therefore I can run a totally validating node however can not run a listening node as I’m unable to obtain incoming requests.

Bitcoin Core v22.0.0 - 70016/Satoshi:22.0.0/
        ipv4    ipv6   onion   whole   block
in         0       0       0       0
out       10       0       0      10       2
whole     10       0       0      10

I discover being a leech deeply unsatisfying.

To deal with this I attempted utilizing a cloudflare tunnel to reveal the server working my btc node.
cloudflared config beneath:

tunnel: <my_tunnel_id_string>
credentials-file: /house/me/.cloudflared/<my_tunnel_id_string>.json
ingress:
  - hostname: dashboard.<my_domain>.on-line    
    service: http://192.168.20.16:8333
  
  - service: http_status:404

warp-routing:
    enabled: true

The cloudflare tunnel is working efficiently.
I’m able to expose a nextcloud occasion on port 80 for instance, however I nonetheless can not get my node to just accept inbound connections.

This drawback is driving me mad.

Assist appreciated.

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