Low incoming connection count

[thephez]

Hi,
I've been following/buying Dash for over year, but just joined the forum and set up a full node on a Vultr VPS. Initially I thought I had a firewall issue because I wasn't seeing any incoming connections, but after waiting a while (overnight) I started seeing some.

With Bitcoin Core, I'm used to seeing 20-30 connections fairly quickly but after 10 days of uptime my server is still only reporting 5 inbound connections. Is this typical? If so, I won't worry about it, but I thought I may have something configured incorrectly (maxconnections in my dash.conf is set to 64 so I think I should be fine there).

Thanks!

 

[UdjinM6]

I'm not quite sure but I think it's smth like this:
In Dash most of the connections go from clients to masternodes and from one masternode to another. That's because 1) clients connect to masternodes directly to mix funds 2) masternodes are very stable in general and have high rating as a network node. And this leads to situation where all clients and masternodes fill their 8 outbound connections quite fast i.e. that they don't need to establish more connections. Because of that a regular full node might see not so many of incoming connections for quite a while.