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diff --git a/content/en/docs/Start/check.md b/content/en/docs/Start/check.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b601320 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/docs/Start/check.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: "Check installation" +date: 2019-12-30 +weight: 40 +description: > + Check if ouroboros works. +draft: false +--- + +To check if everything is installed correctly, you can now jump into +the [/docs/Tutorials](tutorials) section, or you can try to ping this +webhost over ouroboros using the name _ouroboros.rocks.oping_ + +Our webserver is of course on an IP network, and ouroboros does not +control IP, but it can run over UDP. + +To be able to contact our server over ouroboros, you will need to do +some IP configuration: to tell the ouroboros UDP system that the +process "ouroboros.rocks.oping" is running on our webserver by adding +the line + +```bash +51.38.114.133 1bf2cb4fb361f67a59907ef7d2dc5290 +``` + +to your /etc/hosts file (it's the IP address of our server and the MD5 +hash of _ouroboros.rocks.oping_). + +Here are the steps to ping our server over ouroboros: + +Run the IRMd: + +```bash +$ sudo irmd & +``` +Then you will need find your (private) IP address and start an ouroboros UDP +daemon (ipcpd-udp) on that interface: +```bash +$ irm ipcp bootstrap type udp name udp layer udp ip <your local ip address> +``` + +Now you should be able to ping our server! + +```bash +$ oping -n ouroboros.rocks.oping +``` |