If you haven't tested ilp-kit yet, do so now for next to nothing

[Twarden]

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When you're done setting up your ilp node, don't forget to add it to the wiki for others to find to peer with you!

[Guest]

Hi TWarden,

i did try ILP.kit three (3) weeks ago and found that it did not do anything other than receive an arbitrary number of test tokens from the admin. As I recall I could NOT transfer funds between the accounts created. I think they were Green and Blue or Red. I gave up looking at it.

Have you seen ILP.kit do more than this?

[Twarden]

50 minutes ago, Max Entropy said:

Hi TWarden,

i did try ILP.kit three (3) weeks ago and found that it did not do anything other than receive an arbitrary number of test tokens from the admin. As I recall I could NOT transfer funds between the accounts created. I think they were Green and Blue or Red. I gave up looking at it.

Have you seen ILP.kit do more than this?

Well it sounds like you had more success than I did.  

I took this weekend to look at the Interledger repositories and thought it would be nice to help out with bootstrapping 'the dial-up network' described in the wiki, so yesterday I tried to install an instance on CentOS and it failed.  I did some googling and found this method of getting a free month of service from DO.  I followed the setup instructions and ran into a problem with apt-get not being able to locate the letsencrypt package, so I used this guide to Certbot for setting up a free SSL cert for another domain I had.  I've opened an issue about how my admin account cannot fund my connector account twarden and how I cannot create a trust-line with any peers on the wiki (those hosts that do resolve report Unsupported currency and not much more info than that).

ilp-kit is still quite early in development.  It is probably not worthy of a production environment and probably won't be a for a few months yet, however I did find a setup guide for a production environment under the development section repo if you are brave enough (and it sort of irritates me that the ILP team has written a setup guide for nginx but are developing with Apache; I hope they settle on supporting the latter).

[Guest]

It has been awhile since I used NGinx and Apache, but I as recall the installer configuration requirements are mostly similar. I will look at them. Ya, I am sort of surprised that the ILP guys released this code to 'trial' access. It is way too early from what I can see. Another three (3) months minimum until an alpha.

[Twarden]

13 hours ago, Max Entropy said:

It has been awhile since I used NGinx and Apache, but I as recall the installer configuration requirements are mostly similar. I will look at them. Ya, I am sort of surprised that the ILP guys released this code to 'trial' access. It is way too early from what I can see. Another three (3) months minimum until an alpha.

Well at the very least, the more interested people who do setup an ilp-kit then run into issues to report will in theory lead to more bugs/bug fixes.  

As with RCL's implementation, there is the recurrence of the whole 'chicken and egg' problem of connectors/liquidity.  These early adopters who 'bootstrap the dial-up network' in theory will be the first handful of MMs to bridge payments for end-users, so there is an incentive to getting to know ilp-kit in its current state.

[cannylad]

6 hours ago, papa said:

My AOL dial-up account still works but I threw away my modem years ago. What does that say for progress?

we need Boomarang modems??  ( lol sorry coudn't resist)

[Twarden]

Well I sent my first payment successfully the other day so some progress has been made.. It would be nice to get this working on my centos server so I can peer two instances together that I own for testing.

19 hours ago, papa said:

My AOL dial-up account still works but I threw away my modem years ago. What does that say for progress?

Having at least some method within the early development for progressing the ILP network's expansion is better than no method.