finally figured it out
For some reason the MN list is showing the public IP broadcasted by my home router, it's not showing the elastic IP of the EC2 instance. Any idea why this is happening?
When setting this up, did you start darkcoind normally on your remote computer? IE: ./darkcoind ?
When starting your local server, did you start it with the masternode=ip:9999
then unlock the wallet, then start masternode - all on the local wallet?
Does your remote configure have your ip address in the right spot?
Finally, do both wallet config files have masternode=1 in them and the proper needed ip address "addnode=25.25.XXX.XXX"?
Those are the main things I can think of???
yep, i followed all these instructions, my home router IP is shown in the list still instead of the IP of the EC2 instance.
Ok, well it seems like your local wallet is not hooking up with the EC2
Have you possibly started your local darkcoind first with a normal start up, like ./darkcoind before doing ./darkcoind masternodeaddr=ip:9999 ?
If so, you must stop your darkcoind, and start it up from the beginning with ./darkcoind masternodeaddr=(ip_of_remote_server):9999
THEN, you need to unlock your local (hopefully passphrased wallet)
Then do the ./darkcoind masternode start passphrase
something got messed up in the steps, we just have to figure out where
I do this all the time, it's common to get a blind spot, sometimes it's better after walking away from it for a few hours
