<p>It generally takes a long time before the network "discovers" you're a good peer to connect to. It may be a few days before you get inbound connections.</p>

<p>I'm able to connect to you.</p>

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2019-09-15T19:13:45.547Z
Nice. WIll leave it then for now and will come back in few days to see how it is. Btw, shouldn't I see "inbound" connections on my log? Because I still don't see it.
anat0lius
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2019-09-15T19:27:58.600Z
Try `getpeerinfo`. Do you see a connection with `"inbound" : true` there?
Pieter Wuille
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2019-09-15T19:48:12.240Z
yes! there are many
anat0lius
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2019-09-15T19:49:55.467Z
That means you have many incoming connections.
Pieter Wuille
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2019-09-15T18:19:54.433Z
2019-09-15T18:19:54.433Z
Pieter Wuille
<p>Can someone connect to my running node? u3ob433qu3ebkmsu.onion:8333</p>

<p>I'm behind a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CG-NAT</a> so I've thought using TOR would solve my problem.</p>

<p>I had my node running for hours but no inbound connections.</p>

<p><code>grep debug.log -e inbound</code> returns nothing.</p>

<p><strong>$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo</strong></p>

<pre><code>{
  "version": 180000,
  "subversion": "/Satoshi:0.18.0/",
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "localservices": "000000000000040c",
  "localrelay": true,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "networkactive": true,
  "connections": 10,
  "networks": [
    {
      "name": "ipv4",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    },
    {
      "name": "ipv6",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    },
    {
      "name": "onion",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    }
  ],
  "relayfee": 0.00001000,
  "incrementalfee": 0.00001000,
  "localaddresses": [
    {
      "address": "u3ob433qu3ebkmsu.onion",
      "port": 8333,
      "score": 4
    }
  ],
  "warnings": ""
}
</code></pre>

<p><strong>bitcoin.conf</strong></p>

<pre><code>server=1
daemon=1

# RPC
rpcuser=*****
rpcpassword=*******

# TOR
onlynet=onion
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
bind=127.0.0.1
dnsseed=0
dns=0
addnode=nkf5e6b7pl4jfd4a.onion
addnode=yu7sezmixhmyljn4.onion

# Raspberry Pi optimizations
dbcache=100
maxorphantx=10
maxmempool=50
maxconnections=40
maxuploadtarget=5000
prune=6000
</code></pre>

<full-node><tor>
No inbound connections on my bitcoin full node with TOR
anat0lius
# No inbound connections on my bitcoin full node with TOR

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-15)

Can someone connect to my running node? u3ob433qu3ebkmsu.onion:8333
I'm behind a CG-NAT so I've thought using TOR would solve my problem.
I had my node running for hours but no inbound connections.
grep debug.log -e inbound returns nothing.
$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo
{
  "version": 180000,
  "subversion": "/Satoshi:0.18.0/",
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "localservices": "000000000000040c",
  "localrelay": true,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "networkactive": true,
  "connections": 10,
  "networks": [
    {
      "name": "ipv4",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    },
    {
      "name": "ipv6",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    },
    {
      "name": "onion",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    }
  ],
  "relayfee": 0.00001000,
  "incrementalfee": 0.00001000,
  "localaddresses": [
    {
      "address": "u3ob433qu3ebkmsu.onion",
      "port": 8333,
      "score": 4
    }
  ],
  "warnings": ""
}

bitcoin.conf
server=1
daemon=1

# RPC
rpcuser=*****
rpcpassword=*******

# TOR
onlynet=onion
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
bind=127.0.0.1
dnsseed=0
dns=0
addnode=nkf5e6b7pl4jfd4a.onion
addnode=yu7sezmixhmyljn4.onion

# Raspberry Pi optimizations
dbcache=100
maxorphantx=10
maxmempool=50
maxconnections=40
maxuploadtarget=5000
prune=6000

**Tags:** full-node, tor


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-09-15. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

It generally takes a long time before the network "discovers" you're a good peer to connect to. It may be a few days before you get inbound connections.

I'm able to connect to you.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Nice. WIll leave it then for now and will come back in few days to see how it is. Btw, shouldn't I see "inbound" connections on my log? Because I still don't see it.  
> **username_1**: Try `getpeerinfo`. Do you see a connection with `"inbound" : true` there?  
> **username_0**: yes! there are many  
> **username_1**: That means you have many incoming connections.  

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