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Hi I was doing some experiment (especially after the news of stellar network going down) in my simple 2 nodes private network and got some confusion. Here are the steps I follow:

  1. Configured network with 2 nodes, both of them are validators and are included into each others quorum sets with theshold of 50% like this:
[QUORUM_SET]
THRESHOLD_PERCENT=50
VALIDATORS=[
    "$node01",
    "$node02"
]
  1. I stopped the 1st node for some time - the SCP still works with a 2nd node only, since the THRESHOLD_PERCENT was 50 (1 out of 2)
  2. Restarted the 1st node - it started catching up with the 2nd node.
  3. But what I am seeing is they both are running on different ledger state like the 1st node is trailing 2nd node. I was expecting that after some time they both should work on same slot but 1st one is always lagging behind.

What am I missing in concepts ?

EDIT: 1st node is always in "state" : "Catching up","status" : [ "Catching up: Waiting: catchup" ] state. Also none of transaction works on 1st node.

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  • Check your logs. What's your history config? Can 1st one acces the history archive of the 2nd one? – sui May 27 at 10:58
  • Hey @sui sorry for the late reply. And thanks for the suggestion. that is what I doing wrong. I fixed the history get of node 1 to point to node2's. – Vishwas Bhushan May 31 at 5:16
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So fixed this problem. My node1's get in history was not pointing to the node2's archive path. After setting them properly it worked.

Node1's history configuration

[HISTORY.local]
get="cp /tmp/stellar-core/node02/history/vs/{0} {1}"
put="cp {0} /tmp/stellar-core/node01/history/vs/{1}"
mkdir="mkdir -p /tmp/stellar-core/node01/history/vs/{0}"

Node2's history configuration

[HISTORY.local]
get="cp /tmp/stellar-core/node01/history/vs/{0} {1}"
put="cp {0} /tmp/stellar-core/node02/history/vs/{1}"
mkdir="mkdir -p /tmp/stellar-core/node02/history/vs/{0}"
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  • Side note: on most systens /tmp will be cleared on reboot and is therefore not a good location. Better move it to somewhere else. – sui Jun 1 at 13:53
  • yeah agreed. thanks – Vishwas Bhushan Jun 3 at 5:10
  • Glad you solved it! Would you be able to accept this answer? Then it won't keep showing up on the front page. Thanks! – ire_and_curses Oct 29 at 15:22

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