Docker Deployment of Rainbow Container Not Connecting to Peers

[Suo-Ran]

I used the Docker deployment method from the README document, but it didn't work as expected. I found that the listening address was set to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0. I couldn't find any environment variables in the documentation that could change this. After reading the source code, I discovered that you can change it by passing the RAINBOW_GATEWAY_LISTEN_ADDRESS. Now I can successfully access the container, but why is it not connecting to other peers? I have port 4001 mapped and open, and under the same conditions, Kubo works fine, but Rainbow fails.

Here’s the command I used:

docker run -d --restart=always --name ipfs_rainbow -p 4001:4001 -p 4001:4001/udp -p 8090:8090 -p 8091:8091 -e RAINBOW_GATEWAY_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8090 -e RAINBOW_CTL_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8091 ghcr.io/ipfs/rainbow:main-latest

[stephen-eades]

I am not using Docker but fwiw I also can't get any peers. I am compiling and running it then checking http://127.0.0.1:8091/mgr/peers which returns {"Count":0,"Peers":null}

[hsanjuan]

GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL=debug rainbow

Since the default way of running is to have a dht-specific peer and /peers only provides peering information of the main peer, it is normal that count is 0 unless you are manually peering it with someone else.

That does not mean that it doesn't work, it probably works, otherwise the logs will show more.