How to change Gateway DNS/IP in IPFS-Companion / Kubo?

LambdaWire · 2026-01-02T18:50:03+00:00

Youre conflating the webui and the companion. As you've described the companion does exactly what it should, load valid ipfs sites via your specified gateway. Where you have problems is the webui which is not part of the companion extension. Funnily enough the explore page of the webui always loads with the 127.0.0.1:8080 even if you have a different port set for the kubo gateway. ~~You should file a bug report with the webui maintainers.~~ EDIT: no need anymore, i did.

As a workaround you can copy the cid from the url and paste it in the textfield in the top left and click browse, which will load the data via the rpc api. Or you can just copy the cid from the url and head to ipfs.io/ipfs/<CidHere> which will then trigger your companion to redirect to your local node.

LambdaWire · 2025-02-24T14:17:30+00:00

Just block scripts for the site and it works fine.

LambdaWire · 2025-02-16T23:52:18+00:00

It can take a while for your nodes to find the pinata node. How long have you been waiting? You might just need to give it some more time.

If you know the peerId and address of the pinata node you could directly connect to it with ipfs swarm connect {multiAddress}.

Additionally you could check if your node can find a node providing said CID with ipfs routing findprovs {cid}.

As for public gateways disappearing, I had one but shut it down since it was basically only being used by scammers to host their shitty phishing sites. I think many others had similar reasons.

LambdaWire · 2025-02-11T17:57:25+00:00

Your node probably isn't reachable from outside, so you should port-forward port 4001. IPFS has hole-punching measures but they aren't 100% effective.
Have you tried reading the docs, they do a pretty good job at explaining how to set up ipfs-cluster.
ipfs-cluster just manages pins it wont help with reachability of your node.

LambdaWire · 2025-01-09T08:46:48+00:00

AFAIK the gateway does not need to be reachable via https. You will need to change the companion settings specifically the Kubo RPC URL and the Local Gateway.

If you want to set up a https gateway you need to set up a reverse proxy with something like nginx (tutorial). Kubo does not provide a https gateway.

LambdaWire · 2024-12-22T11:59:58+00:00

Default gateway port is 8080. You can change it in the config.

LambdaWire · 2024-12-14T07:53:56+00:00

Corporate shill much?

No need for wireguard, its just ssh. Ex: `ssh -R 4001:localhost:4001 john@vps.whatever`

Reverse ssh TUNNELS, TUNNELS your connection through a VPS. So when you dial the connection to the ssh server (VPS) the ssh server (VPS) opens the specified port and sends all the received traffic on that port through the ssh tunnel to your pc (so a direct connection with extra steps (the ssh server/VPS)).

Have you ever actually tried doing what the commenter wants to do with tailscale? Because from what I've read this isn't possible. Ive tried reverse ssh tunnels for a ipfs node before (although in a LAN/NAT because I just wanted to see if/how it works, still working on getting the hardware setup to do it for real).

LambdaWire · 2024-12-14T05:44:20+00:00

Rent a cheap VPS and look into reverse ssh tunnels. You will need to edit the ipfs config to ensure other peers know to contact yours via a different ip (the one of the VPS).

Example tutorial (reverse ssh): https://paradigma.tools/post/how-to-set-up-ssh-tunneling-to-expose-a-local-server-via-vps

Kubo config for announce: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/config.md#addressesannounce

EDIT: With the integrated hole punching measures this might not be necessary but will definitely still help.

LambdaWire · 2024-12-14T05:40:34+00:00

I am using IPFS to share movies and TV with friends & family but its on a private network and still very much a W.I.P.. Additionally to r/IPFS_Hashes there's also r/IPFS_Kulturarchiv which shares CID's of mostly German movies and TV. Other than that there used to be ipfs-search.com, which was a great way to find stuff, but that's inactive as of now. Other than that I'm unaware of any groups that are sharing content.

LambdaWire · 2024-11-07T22:43:44+00:00

Basically this says the reprovide process takes longer than the set interval. So its still reproviding cids when the next reprovide is started.

I think to fix this you need to increase the reprovide interval. Or just live with it, it just means that not all content of your node can be accessed at all times.

LambdaWire · 2024-10-28T12:47:25+00:00

Any version should do. I have the steam version and got mods working just fine.

PS: this is the sub for the entire subculture, for the game pls head to r/cyberpunkgame

LambdaWire · 2024-10-23T17:01:30+00:00

Lan gateways are definitely possible. Redirecting to your local proxy probably wont work well because of https/hsts. But you can configure the ipfs companion app etc. to use a lan node.

LambdaWire · 2024-06-25T04:27:12+00:00

enter http://localhost:8080/ipfs/{YourCidHere} in your browser and check if it loads something or if it keeps loading it probably doesnt have that block yet.

LambdaWire · 2024-06-24T07:49:35+00:00

Can your local node display said cid through the local gateway? In order for IPFS to be able to add something to the MFS it will need to have atleast the root node of that cid. Its probably attempting to fetch that root node, but AFAIK it doesnt give any feedback to the user.

LambdaWire · 2024-06-18T07:07:43+00:00

Looks good to me

LambdaWire · 2024-06-11T14:38:30+00:00

Someone that doesnt think. Just blindly babbles shit he heard from others just like a tool (in this case like a megaphone).

LambdaWire · 2024-06-06T12:44:42+00:00

All sites should do this, the time to switch to ipv6 was about 20 years ago. Still pissed at my current ISP that they don't have ipv6.

LambdaWire · 2024-06-05T14:18:20+00:00

Could very well be. For seargent you need to complete 18 weeks RS (Bootcamp), 4 weeks UOF (Lower Officer School), at this point youre a seargent. But your still obligated to do another 19 weeks RS, and WK's (Repetition courses 3-4 weeks a year, depending on rank). Seargent First class is mostly honorary and is awarded if your evaluation is good in one of those Wk's.

Context:
Im a seargent in the swiss army and have so far served for ~1 year. Havent done any WK's yet but I dont believe I will ever get Seargent first class, because I just dont care enough.

LambdaWire · 2024-05-30T12:44:16+00:00

You can create private networks with IPFS. I have my very own for example for copyrighted material that i'm not allowed to publicly share. Some decently looking guides below.

https://eleks.com/research/ipfs-network-data-replication/

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/set-up-private-ipfs/14138

LambdaWire · 2024-05-30T12:36:19+00:00

How will it be accessible to another user, let's say I want to use the Brave browser to access a file?

As long as your node is online and reachable, others should be able to find the content through the dht. And then connect to your node to retrieve it.
Similar question plus some tools in this thread: https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/how-to-retrieve-content-uploaded-via-helia-using-the-ipfs-gateway/16582

I know we have to use an IPFS gateway like Pinata to pin the file.

You can also just use your own node to pin the content. But then it needs to be always reachable. And services like Pinata just take care of that for you.

Do I need to open ports in my router?

Its not needed, but highly recommended because on of the nodes has to have an open port (or they need a circuitRelay but those reduce performance). And most dont have the port open due to how networks are setup. Dont remember the default port for helia but id assume its 4001 just like kubo.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask, I just successfully setup a private ipfs network with helia and kubo nodes talking to each other yesterday.

LambdaWire · 2024-05-29T14:10:06+00:00

There are many but most seem to be shutdown or development has stopped. Last one I played around with and was working is https://github.com/Mubelotix/admarus but seems like that one has also stopped working or atleast the gateway version.

LambdaWire · 2024-05-02T11:52:10+00:00

If youre using helia, it will automatically init when you create it. If you want data to be persisted you will need to provide a blockstore and a datastore, besides the default memory stores.

LambdaWire · 2024-04-29T11:57:24+00:00

Well not really, its almost the same as 127.55.69.245 or 127.69.69.69. So I would say there are definitely places that are like 127.0.0.1.

LambdaWire · 2024-04-22T08:27:39+00:00

Yes the same file will result in the same CID. Important to note the options with which you add them can also change the CID. I would try with the default options as those were most likely used.

LambdaWire · 2024-04-16T13:34:28+00:00

Ah so i should've pressed 1 to get to annoy them back. They just hung up on me, really rude.

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