fix: private IPFS swarm nodes never peer, breaking shared storage - #359
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The pinned ipfs/go-ipfs:v0.10.0 image has a private-network (pnet) connection bug where swarm connections drop immediately after handshake, so org IPFS nodes never peer with each other. This causes "failed to bootstrap (no peers found)" and shared storage downloads to time out fetching content pinned only on another member's node. Bump to ipfs/kubo:v0.42.0, and since modern Kubo refuses to start in private-network mode with its default AutoConf/public bootstrap config, add a container-init.d script that disables it for private-mode stacks. mDNS auto-discovery, which worked locally, proved unreliable on native Linux Docker bridge networks - members' nodes never found each other there. Add an explicit peering step after first-time-setup that queries each member's real PeerID via its own API and calls swarm/peering/add against every other member, so nodes connect (and persistently reconnect) regardless of whether mDNS works in a given environment. Signed-off-by: Enrique Lacal <enrique.lacal@kaleido.io>
Signed-off-by: Enrique Lacal <enrique.lacal@kaleido.io>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Raper <daniel.raper@kaleido.io>
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The pinned ipfs/go-ipfs:v0.10.0 image has a private-network (pnet) connection bug where swarm connections drop immediately after handshake, so org IPFS nodes never peer with each other. This causes "failed to bootstrap (no peers found)" and shared storage downloads to time out fetching content pinned only on another member's node.
Bump to ipfs/kubo:v0.42.0, and since modern Kubo refuses to start (or never peers) in private-network mode with its default AutoConf/public bootstrap config, add a container-init.d script that disables it for private-mode stacks.