Currently, I am following the recommendation of running a full node on my desktop with bitcoind; it has most of the blockchain downloaded (~680000 blocks) and is not pruned. Then I have two laptops that I will be running bitcoin-qt on that will only connect to my full node. Unfortunately, I am having trouble with bitcoind sending the index and blocks to the inbound connections from the bitcoin-qt laptops. My configuration files, node info, and peer info are included below. Thanks for your suggestions.
desktop bitcoind /etc/bitcoin.conf
rpcauth=root:******
rpcauth=_bitcoind:******
[main]
[test]
[signet]
[regtest]
laptop bitcoin-qt ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
connect=192.168.1.197:8333
desktop bitcoind daemon control script /etc/rc.d/bitcoind
#!/bin/ksh
#
# $OpenBSD: bitcoind.rc,v 1.2 2018/07/15 22:03:50 bentley Exp $
daemon="/usr/local/bin/bitcoind"
daemon_timeout="300"
daemon_user="_bitcoind"
datadir="/home/bitcoin"
conf="/etc/bitcoin.conf"
daemon_flags="-daemon -conf=$conf -datadir=${datadir}"
. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
rc_reload=NO
rc_cmd $1
bitcoin-cli -getinfo to bitcoind on the desktop, it returns:
{
"version": 210100,
"blocks": 684628,
"headers": 718323,
"verificationprogress": 0.90065025371744,
"timeoffset": -1,
"connections": {
"in": 2,
"out": 1,
"total": 3
},
"proxy": "",
"difficulty": 25046487590083.27,
"chain": "main",
"relayfee": 0.00001000,
"warnings": ""
}
When I run getpeerinfo in the bitcoin-qt console, I get:
[
{
"id": 0,
"addr": "192.168.1.197:8333",
"addrbind": "192.168.1.174:58377",
"network": "not_publicly_routable",
"services": "0000000000000409",
"servicesnames": [
"NETWORK",
"WITNESS",
"NETWORK_LIMITED"
],
"relaytxes": true,
"lastsend": 1642006419,
"lastrecv": 1642006299,
"last_transaction": 0,
"last_block": 0,
"bytessent": 693,
"bytesrecv": 18317,
"conntime": 1642005880,
"timeoffset": 0,
"pingtime": 0.002229,
"minping": 0.001617,
"pingwait": 6.439448,
"version": 70016,
"subver": "/Satoshi:0.21.1/",
"inbound": false,
"bip152_hb_to": false,
"bip152_hb_from": false,
"startingheight": 684595,
"synced_headers": -1,
"synced_blocks": -1,
"inflight": [
],
"addr_processed": 1003,
"addr_rate_limited": 0,
"permissions": [
],
"minfeefilter": 0.09170997,
"bytessent_per_msg": {
"feefilter": 32,
"getaddr": 24,
"getheaders": 93,
"ping": 160,
"pong": 96,
"sendaddrv2": 24,
"sendcmpct": 66,
"sendheaders": 24,
"verack": 24,
"version": 126,
"wtxidrelay": 24
},
"bytesrecv_per_msg": {
"addrv2": 17773,
"feefilter": 32,
"ping": 96,
"pong": 128,
"sendaddrv2": 24,
"sendcmpct": 66,
"sendheaders": 24,
"verack": 24,
"version": 126,
"wtxidrelay": 24
},
"connection_type": "manual"
}
]