IPFS-Bootstrap.md

Administrate the bootstrap peers

For connecting to other peers, your node has to know one peer, at least. Therefore we configure a list of bootstrap peers.

You can list bootstrap peers and ping them.

ipfs bootstrap list

for peeraddr in $(ipfs bootstrap list)
do
    echo $peeraddr
    peer=$(echo $peeraddr | awk '{ print $NF }')
    ipfs ping -n 1 $peer
    echo
done

You can add, remove, save and load bootstrap peers.

ipfs bootstrap add /ip4/139.59.152.171/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx

ipfs bootstrap list > /tmp/mybootstraplist

ipfs bootstrap rm all

cat /tmp/mybootstraplist | ipfs bootstrap add

ipfs bootstrap list | grep QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx

ipfs bootstrap rm /ip4/139.59.152.171/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx
ipfs bootstrap list | grep QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx

There are default bootstrap peers which you can add at any time.

ipfs bootstrap rm all
ipfs bootstrap add /ip4/139.59.152.171/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx

ipfs bootstrap add default
ipfs bootstrap list | grep QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVxxxxx

Create a private network of peers

Firstly, you have to stop the daemon, if running.

ipfs shutdown

Then, you remove all bootstrap peers and start the daemon again.

ipfs bootstrap rm all
ipfs daemon &

Now, you have a bootstrap peer for a private network. You choose an address of the bootstrap peer for other peers' configuration.

ipfs id -f="<addrs>\n"

This address you add as bootstrap peer to other peers.

ipfs bootstrap add <multiaddr>/<peerID>

ToDo: Let one peer connect to another network and watch the connected peers.