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Low Forest node count in ProbeLab #7527
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ProbeLab shows there are only two Forest nodes on mainnet https://probelab.io/filecoin/topology/ - one running in France, another in India. This seems off as I'm personally aware of at least
- 2 bootstrap nodes hosted by CS Infra + the one producing snapshots,
- 1 RPC node by ChainLove
- 1 RPC node by Arkadiy
- my own node
- a mainnet node running in sync check
- I think Ankr hosts at least one as well
At the same time, 23% are reported as unknown/other.
This should be investigated, because it heavily undersells Forest adoption.
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- Get in touch with ProbeLab to understand their methodology and where the gap is coming from
- Fix if possible
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LesnyRumcajs commentedon Oct 19, 2026
I probably managed to get a fix on that (not a libp2p knob - we're just too trigger happy when banning). Once it lands on a release we'll see if it helps.
LesnyRumcajs commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Stronger whitelisting didn't help, another potential candidate is simply the connection limits; long-running nodes go to their peer connection limit and simply reject additional peers (crawlers included).