Add IPFS service that is peered to https://ipfs.network.thegraph.com/ipfs/

[schmidsi]

Currently, there is a single point of failure with https://ipfs.network.thegraph.com/ipfs/. Indexers should run their own node and peer to https://ipfs.network.thegraph.com/ipfs/ to increase resilience.

[trader-payne]

Hi Simon,
Unfortunately I cannot add an IPFS container as it triggers netscans in datacenters and this will lead to many people having their cloud accounts banned. :)
I haven't seen a solution that works, apart from setting firewall rules on the private network ports, which then disable certain actions from indexers such as graph indexer status command, etc.

[schmidsi]

Oh, that's bad. Thanks for the update. Shall we leave this issue open to investigate other options at a later point? Otherwise, feel free to close it.

[abarmat]

What about this proposed fix? ipfs/kubo#4343 (comment)

[abarmat]

That one I shared is temporary (but seems it should work) until this one lands ipfs/kubo#6932

[schmidsi]

For context here would be the config to setup an IPFS node to peer with The Graph's hosted service IPFS node: https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/peering-with-content-providers/#content-provider-list (thanks to Leo)

[leoyvens]

The peer ID of the network IPFS node (not hosted service) is QmUBRCtHivKQCXNykUdtpnhqSCTVuaE6ajLXANFG8Etp7j. This peer id has changed. We can look for the new one but I'd like to see how well things work without explicit peering. IPFS lookup has improved with recent versions of Kubo.

[trader-payne]

I've seen reports that the flag doesn't stop it from net scanning. I'm willing to try it out but I need someone with a burner account that can afford to have their (baremetal) server (potentially) blocked in case this doesn't work.

[Chomtana]

I think flag IPFS_PROFILE: server works as I don't get any hetzner ban after using this flag

  ipfs:
    image: ipfs/kubo:v0.18.1
    container_name: ipfs
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      IPFS_PROFILE: server
    expose:
      - 5001
    volumes:
      - ipfs_data:/data/ipfs
      - ./ipfs-init.sh:/container-init.d/ipfs-init.sh
    networks:
      - monitor-net