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Configuration

Server Timezone​

Make sure your server timezone configuration is UTC. To know what is your current timezone, run the timedatectl command.

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🚨 DANGER: Having a different timezone configuration may cause a LastResultsHash mismatch error. This will take down your node!

Block Time​

The timeout-commit value in the node config defines how long we wait after committing a block, before starting on the new height (this gives us a chance to receive some more pre-commits, even though we already have +2/3). The current default value is "3s".

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Note: From v6, this is handled automatically by the server when initializing the node. Validators will need to ensure their local node configurations in order to speed up the network to ~4s block times.

# In ~/.dep/config/config.toml

#######################################################
###         Consensus Configuration Options         ###
#######################################################
[consensus]

### ... 

# How long we wait after committing a block, before starting on the new
# height (this gives us a chance to receive some more precommits, even
# though we already have +2/3).
timeout_commit = "3s"

Peers​

In ~/.dep/config/config.toml you can set your peers.

See the Add persistent peers section in our docs for an automated method, but field should look something like a comma separated string of peers (do not copy this, just an example):

persistent_peers = "[email protected]:24656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656"

Sharing your Peer​

You can see and share your peer with the tendermint show-node-id command

dep tendermint show-node-id
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Healthy peers​

If you are relying on just seed node and no persistent peers or a low amount of them, please increase the following params in the config.toml:

# Maximum number of inbound peers
max_num_inbound_peers = 120

# Maximum number of outbound peers to connect to, excluding persistent peers
max_num_outbound_peers = 60