Hello Neill,

thanks for asking. Here is a somewhat more precise description of what I did (try to do): I produced standard builds of libbitcoin and bx tools from the source code as of yesterday, I try a command like 'bx fetch-height', I receive said error. To test whether this depends on server availability I produce a local version of the configuration file. In the [server] section I change url to e.g. tcp://obelisk.bysh.me:9091 and try 'bx fetch-height -c bx.cfg' , but no change (tried several names from this list: https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/Obelisk/Servers ). Unfortunately, this is also true for the url you just sent. When I instead use 'libbitcoin-explore-master/data/bx-testnet.cfg' as the configuration file, I receive a number.

I had a working version of bx on the same machine some months ago, but upgraded the system.

Best regards
Uwe H

Ein Sat, 15 Oct 2016 19:29:31 -0500, Neill Miller <neillm@???> schrieb:
On a somewhat related note, tcp://libbitcoin1.thecodefactory.org:30000
> has been open for use for some time. Testnet is *not* available
> though.
>
> -Neill.
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 03:47:45PM -0700, Eric Voskuil wrote:
> > The default (Airbitz mainnet) server has been offline for some time. The last time I checked their testnet server was up. You can direct bx to that server by switching config to testnet.
> >
> > e
> >
> > > On Oct 15, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Neill Miller <neillm@???> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Just to clarify, you did a testnet build of bx and can connect to it,
> > > or you would like to connect to testnet but cannot currently? How did
> > > you build bx?
> > >
> > > In the "[server]" section of bx.cfg, what is the url set to?
> > >
> > > -Neill.
> > >
> > >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 10:22:05PM +0200, bug456@??? wrote:
> > >> Hello
> > >>
> > >> I am using bx tools to learn something about bitcoin. As of today, I cannot connect to any server. Message is: Connection timed out. I have tried changing the server name and changing the time limits in the configuration file. I can connect to testnet.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas are appreciated.
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >>
> > >> UH.
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Uwe H.