Bitcoind problem
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m416415 · 2020-08-17 11:10

Hi all! Can someone point me to the right direction? I have jail and
bitcoind installed in it and the problem is when I'm in jail I'm
entering command bitcoin-cli getblockhaininfo it returns: error:
server returned HTTP error 403. I'm on 12 stable and bitcoin version
is 0.20.0.0-ga62f0ed64f8bbbdfe6467ac5ce92ef5b5222d1bd

As long as I remember, when I had 12.1 release and bitcoin version
0.19 I did not had this problem. Thanks

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m416415 · 2020-08-17 15:29

Just installed bitcoind on host and there everything is OK...

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m416415 · 2020-08-17 15:40

That's mean that probably something missing in jail.conf...

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bro_can_u_even_carve · 2020-08-17 18:46

Is bitcoin-cli running in the same jail as bitcoind?

Does the user bitcoind runs as have permissions to read/write the
blockchain data directory?

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m416415 · 2020-08-18 07:00

Yes I have only one jail on the system and yes, because blocks is
being downloaded and written to /var/db/bitcoin I can hit ctrl-c,
launch bitcoind again and it will start from the last downloaded
block. I assume that bitcoind user is bitcoin

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bro_can_u_even_carve · 2020-08-18 09:11

Hm, yeah, that seems OK. How about your bitcoind conf file or command
line arguments, does the keyword `rpcpassword` appear anywhere in
either of those?

How about `rpcallowip`?

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m416415 · 2020-08-18 14:09

Yes I tried it rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 no effect

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bro_can_u_even_carve · 2020-08-18 18:59

Hm, I think I might have got it. Try making it rpcallowip=$JAILIP,
where $JAILIP is the IP address assigned to the jail itself.

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m416415 · 2020-08-19 13:26

Thanks u/bro_can_u_ever_carve, I will check it, I need to solve
problem with my nic that appeared yesterday and then I'll write here
back.

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bro_can_u_even_carve · 2020-08-19 18:33

Cool! I'm pretty confident it will solve the problem at this point,
hopefully it does :)

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m416415 · 2020-08-22 11:33

No effect the same error.

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bro_can_u_even_carve · 2020-08-24 21:32

Damn, really?

I was pretty sure that had to be the problem, because I noticed that
inside a jail, connections to 127.0.0.1 do appear to the listener to
come from the actual jail IP.

    jail3:/# nc -vl 127.0.0.1 5555 &
    jail3:/# nc -v 127.0.0.1 5555
    Connection from 10.0.99.3 49963 received!
    Connection to 127.0.0.1 5555 port [tcp/*] succeeded!

Since the default rpcallowip is only 127.0.0.1, this seems like it
would result in exactly the error you're seeing (HTTP 403, which is
"forbidden").

I guess you're sure you got the IP right (run `ifconfig -a` inside the
jail), and restarted bitcoind (is the right `-rpcallowip=ADDR` option
visible in `ps auxww | fgrep bitcoind`), right?

Is there anything interesting in the bitcoind `debug.log` file (inside
the `-datadir` directory) when this error occurs?