bidoudan / ravennodes

Bitnodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network.

Ravennodes

This project is based on Bitnodes.

Ravennodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Ravencoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network. These are the nodes that accept incoming connections. Why you should run a full node is explained here on the Bitcoin wiki. The current methodology involves sending getaddr messages recursively to find all the reachable nodes in the network, starting from a set of seed nodes. It is worth mentioning that this method of estimating network size does not list all full nodes because not all nodes have an open port that can be probed using Ravennodes. These nodes are either behind firewalls or they are configured to not listen for connections.

Main Changes

• Changed parameters to support Ravencoin
• Turned off Tor network support.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• Redis

Steps on setting up a machine to run Ravennodes

Ubuntu 18.04, 16GB RAM Machine:

Install redis

cd ~/
sudo apt install redis

Install Ravennodes and set up dependencies

git clone https://github.com/jeroz1/Ravennodes.git
#Move redis conf file
sudo cp ~/Ravennodes/depends/redis/redis.conf /etc/redis/
#Install Python requirements
cd ~/Ravennodes
pip install -r requirements.txt
#Update GeoIP
bash geoip/update.sh

Start redis service

#Login as admin
sudo -i
#Update /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
nano /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
	#Change value to 511
#Disable THP
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
#Update /etc/security/limits.conf
nano /etc/security/limits.conf
	#Add the following:
	* soft nofile 1000000
	* hard nofile 1000000
#Start Redis Server
redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf

To start the Ravennodes crawler

Open a new console and start the crawler:

~/Ravennodes/start.sh

Data output will be available in ~/Ravennodes/data/export/5241564e

Process logs will be available in ~/Ravennodes/log

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-Jeroz