The Kubo (go-ipfs) config file is a JSON document located at $IPFS_PATH/config
. It
is read once at node instantiation, either for an offline command, or when
starting the daemon. Commands that execute on a running daemon do not read the
config file at runtime.
- The Kubo config file
- Table of Contents
- Profiles
- Types
Addresses
API
AutoNAT
Bootstrap
Datastore
Discovery
Experimental
Gateway
Identity
Internal
Ipns
Migration
Mounts
Pinning
Pubsub
Peering
Reprovider
Routing
Swarm
Swarm.AddrFilters
Swarm.DisableBandwidthMetrics
Swarm.DisableNatPortMap
Swarm.EnableHolePunching
Swarm.EnableAutoRelay
Swarm.RelayClient
Swarm.RelayService
Swarm.RelayService.Enabled
Swarm.RelayService.Limit
Swarm.RelayService.ReservationTTL
Swarm.RelayService.MaxReservations
Swarm.RelayService.MaxCircuits
Swarm.RelayService.BufferSize
Swarm.RelayService.MaxReservationsPerPeer
Swarm.RelayService.MaxReservationsPerIP
Swarm.RelayService.MaxReservationsPerASN
Swarm.EnableRelayHop
Swarm.DisableRelay
Swarm.EnableAutoNATService
Swarm.ConnMgr
Swarm.ResourceMgr
Swarm.Transports
Swarm.Transports.Network
Swarm.Transports.Security
Swarm.Transports.Multiplexers
Swarm.Transports.Multiplexers.Yamux
Swarm.Transports.Multiplexers.Mplex
DNS
Import
Version
Configuration profiles allow to tweak configuration quickly. Profiles can be
applied with the --profile
flag to ipfs init
or with the ipfs config profile apply
command. When a profile is applied a backup of the configuration file
will be created in $IPFS_PATH
.
The available configuration profiles are listed below. You can also find them
documented in ipfs config profile --help
.
-
server
Disables local host discovery, recommended when running IPFS on machines with public IPv4 addresses.
-
randomports
Use a random port number for the incoming swarm connections.
-
default-datastore
Configures the node to use the default datastore (flatfs).
Read the "flatfs" profile description for more information on this datastore.
This profile may only be applied when first initializing the node.
-
local-discovery
Enables local discovery (enabled by default). Useful to re-enable local discovery after it's disabled by another profile (e.g., the server profile).
-
test
Reduces external interference of IPFS daemon, this is useful when using the daemon in test environments.
-
default-networking
Restores default network settings. Inverse profile of the test profile.
-
flatfs
Configures the node to use the flatfs datastore. Flatfs is the default datastore.
This is the most battle-tested and reliable datastore. You should use this datastore if:
- You need a very simple and very reliable datastore, and you trust your filesystem. This datastore stores each block as a separate file in the underlying filesystem so it's unlikely to lose data unless there's an issue with the underlying file system.
- You need to run garbage collection in a way that reclaims free space as soon as possible.
- You want to minimize memory usage.
- You are ok with the default speed of data import, or prefer to use
--nocopy
.
This profile may only be applied when first initializing the node.
-
badgerds
Configures the node to use the experimental badger datastore. Keep in mind that this uses an outdated badger 1.x.
Use this datastore if some aspects of performance, especially the speed of adding many gigabytes of files, are critical. However, be aware that:
- This datastore will not properly reclaim space when your datastore is
smaller than several gigabytes. If you run IPFS with
--enable-gc
, you plan on storing very little data in your IPFS node, and disk usage is more critical than performance, consider usingflatfs
. - This datastore uses up to several gigabytes of memory.
- Good for medium-size datastores, but may run into performance issues if your dataset is bigger than a terabyte.
- The current implementation is based on old badger 1.x which is no longer supported by the upstream team.
This profile may only be applied when first initializing the node.
- This datastore will not properly reclaim space when your datastore is
smaller than several gigabytes. If you run IPFS with
-
lowpower
Reduces daemon overhead on the system. Affects node functionality - performance of content discovery and data fetching may be degraded. Local data won't be announced on routing systems like Amino DHT.
Swarm.ConnMgr
set to maintain minimum number of p2p connections at a time.- Disables
Reprovider
service → no CID will be announced on Amino DHT and other routing systems(!) - Disables AutoNAT.
Use this profile with caution.
-
legacy-cid-v0
Makes UnixFS import (
ipfs add
) produce legacy CIDv0 with no raw leaves, sha2-256 and 256 KiB chunks.[!WARNING] This profile is provided for legacy users and should not be used for new projects.
-
test-cid-v1
Makes UnixFS import (
ipfs add
) produce modern CIDv1 with raw leaves, sha2-256 and 1 MiB chunks.[!NOTE] This profile will become the new implicit default, provided for testing purposes. Follow kubo#4143 for more details.
This document refers to the standard JSON types (e.g., null
, string
,
number
, etc.), as well as a few custom types, described below.
Flags allow enabling and disabling features. However, unlike simple booleans,
they can also be null
(or omitted) to indicate that the default value should
be chosen. This makes it easier for Kubo to change the defaults in the
future unless the user explicitly sets the flag to either true
(enabled) or
false
(disabled). Flags have three possible states:
null
or missing (apply the default value).true
(enabled)false
(disabled)
Priorities allow specifying the priority of a feature/protocol and disabling the feature/protocol. Priorities can take one of the following values:
null
/missing (apply the default priority, same as with flags)false
(disabled)1 - 2^63
(priority, lower is preferred)
Strings is a special type for conveniently specifying a single string, an array of strings, or null:
null
"a single string"
["an", "array", "of", "strings"]
Duration is a type for describing lengths of time, using the same format go
does (e.g, "1d2h4m40.01s"
).
Optional integers allow specifying some numerical value which has an implicit default when missing from the config file:
null
/missing will apply the default value defined in Kubo sources (.WithDefault(value)
)- an integer between
-2^63
and2^63-1
(i.e.-9223372036854775808
to9223372036854775807
)
Optional Bytes allow specifying some number of bytes which has an implicit default when missing from the config file:
null
/missing (apply the default value defined in Kubo sources)- a string value indicating the number of bytes, including human readable representations:
Optional strings allow specifying some string value which has an implicit default when missing from the config file:
null
/missing will apply the default value defined in Kubo sources (.WithDefault("value")
)- a string
Optional durations allow specifying some duration value which has an implicit default when missing from the config file:
null
/missing will apply the default value defined in Kubo sources (.WithDefault("1h2m3s")
)- a string with a valid go duration (e.g,
"1d2h4m40.01s"
).
Contains information about various listener addresses to be used by this node.
Multiaddr or array of multiaddrs describing the address to serve
the local Kubo RPC API (/api/v0
).
Supported Transports:
- tcp/ip{4,6} -
/ipN/.../tcp/...
- unix -
/unix/path/to/socket
Default: /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001
Type: strings
(multiaddrs)
Multiaddr or array of multiaddrs describing the address to serve
the local HTTP gateway (/ipfs
, /ipns
) on.
Supported Transports:
- tcp/ip{4,6} -
/ipN/.../tcp/...
- unix -
/unix/path/to/socket
Default: /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080
Type: strings
(multiaddrs)
An array of multiaddrs describing which addresses to listen on for p2p swarm connections.
Supported Transports:
- tcp/ip{4,6} -
/ipN/.../tcp/...
- websocket -
/ipN/.../tcp/.../ws
- quicv1 (RFC9000) -
/ipN/.../udp/.../quic-v1
- can share the same two tuple with/quic-v1/webtransport
- webtransport
/ipN/.../udp/.../quic-v1/webtransport
- can share the same two tuple with/quic-v1
Note that quic (Draft-29) used to be supported with the format /ipN/.../udp/.../quic
, but has since been removed.
Default:
[
"/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001",
"/ip6/::/tcp/4001",
"/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic-v1",
"/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic-v1/webtransport",
"/ip6/::/udp/4001/quic-v1",
"/ip6/::/udp/4001/quic-v1/webtransport"
]
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
If non-empty, this array specifies the swarm addresses to announce to the network. If empty, the daemon will announce inferred swarm addresses.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
Similar to Addresses.Announce
except this doesn't
override inferred swarm addresses if non-empty.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
An array of swarm addresses not to announce to the network.
Takes precedence over Addresses.Announce
and Addresses.AppendAnnounce
.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
Contains information used by the Kubo RPC API.
Map of HTTP headers to set on responses from the RPC (/api/v0
) HTTP server.
Example:
{
"Foo": ["bar"]
}
Default: null
Type: object[string -> array[string]]
(header names -> array of header values)
The API.Authorizations
field defines user-based access restrictions for the
Kubo RPC API, which is located at
Addresses.API
under /api/v0
paths.
By default, the RPC API is accessible without restrictions as it is only
exposed on 127.0.0.1
and safeguarded with Origin check and implicit
CORS headers that
block random websites from accessing the RPC.
When entries are defined in API.Authorizations
, RPC requests will be declined
unless a corresponding secret is present in the HTTP Authorization
header,
and the requested path is included in the AllowedPaths
list for that specific
secret.
Default: null
Type: object[string -> object]
(user name -> authorization object, see bellow)
For example, to limit RPC access to Alice (access id
and MFS files
commands with HTTP Basic Auth)
and Bob (full access with Bearer token):
{
"API": {
"Authorizations": {
"Alice": {
"AuthSecret": "basic:alice:password123",
"AllowedPaths": ["/api/v0/id", "/api/v0/files"]
},
"Bob": {
"AuthSecret": "bearer:secret-token123",
"AllowedPaths": ["/api/v0"]
}
}
}
}
The AuthSecret
field denotes the secret used by a user to authenticate,
usually via HTTP Authorization
header.
Field format is type:value
, and the following types are supported:
bearer:
For secret Bearer tokens, set asbearer:token
.- If no known
type:
prefix is present,bearer:
is assumed.
- If no known
basic
: For HTTP Basic Auth introduced in RFC7617. Value can be:basic:user:pass
basic:base64EncodedBasicAuth
One can use the config value for authentication via the command line:
ipfs id --api-auth basic:user:pass
Type: string
The AllowedPaths
field is an array of strings containing allowed RPC path
prefixes. Users authorized with the related AuthSecret
will only be able to
access paths prefixed by the specified prefixes.
For instance:
- If set to
["/api/v0"]
, the user will have access to the complete RPC API. - If set to
["/api/v0/id", "/api/v0/files"]
, the user will only have access to theid
command and all MFS commands underfiles
.
Note that /api/v0/version
is always permitted access to allow version check
to ensure compatibility.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
Contains the configuration options for the libp2p's AutoNAT service. The AutoNAT service helps other nodes on the network determine if they're publicly reachable from the rest of the internet.
When unset (default), the AutoNAT service defaults to enabled. Otherwise, this field can take one of two values:
enabled
- Enable the V1+V2 service (unless the node determines that it, itself, isn't reachable by the public internet).legacy-v1
- Same asenabled
but only V1 service is enabled. Used for testing during as few releases as we transition to V2, will be removed in the future.disabled
- Disable the service.
Additional modes may be added in the future.
Important
We are in the progress of rolling out AutoNAT V2. Right now, by default, a publicly dialable Kubo provides both V1 and V2 service to other peers, but only V1 is used by Kubo as a client. In a future release we will remove V1 and switch client to use V2.
Default: enabled
Type: optionalString
When set, this option configures the AutoNAT services throttling behavior. By default, Kubo will rate-limit the number of NAT checks performed for other nodes to 30 per minute, and 3 per peer.
Configures how many AutoNAT requests to service per AutoNAT.Throttle.Interval
.
Default: 30
Type: integer
(non-negative, 0
means unlimited)
Configures how many AutoNAT requests per-peer to service per AutoNAT.Throttle.Interval
.
Default: 3
Type: integer
(non-negative, 0
means unlimited)
Configures the interval for the above limits.
Default: 1 Minute
Type: duration
(when 0
/unset, the default value is used)
Bootstrap is an array of multiaddrs of trusted nodes that your node connects to, to fetch other nodes of the network on startup.
Default: The ipfs.io bootstrap nodes
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
Contains information related to the construction and operation of the on-disk storage system.
A soft upper limit for the size of the ipfs repository's datastore. With StorageGCWatermark
,
is used to calculate whether to trigger a gc run (only if --enable-gc
flag is set).
Default: "10GB"
Type: string
(size)
The percentage of the StorageMax
value at which a garbage collection will be
triggered automatically if the daemon was run with automatic gc enabled (that
option defaults to false currently).
Default: 90
Type: integer
(0-100%)
A time duration specifying how frequently to run a garbage collection. Only used if automatic gc is enabled.
Default: 1h
Type: duration
(an empty string means the default value)
A boolean value. If set to true, all block reads from the disk will be hashed and verified. This will cause increased CPU utilization.
Default: false
Type: bool
A number representing the size in bytes of the blockstore's bloom filter. A value of zero represents the feature is disabled.
This site generates useful graphs for various bloom filter values:
https://hur.st/bloomfilter/?n=1e6&p=0.01&m=&k=7 You may use it to find a
preferred optimal value, where m
is BloomFilterSize
in bits. Remember to
convert the value m
from bits, into bytes for use as BloomFilterSize
in the
config file. For example, for 1,000,000 blocks, expecting a 1% false-positive
rate, you'd end up with a filter size of 9592955 bits, so for BloomFilterSize
we'd want to use 1199120 bytes. As of writing, 7 hash
functions
are used, so the constant k
is 7 in the formula.
Default: 0
(disabled)
Type: integer
(non-negative, bytes)
Spec defines the structure of the ipfs datastore. It is a composable structure, where each datastore is represented by a json object. Datastores can wrap other datastores to provide extra functionality (eg metrics, logging, or caching).
This can be changed manually, however, if you make any changes that require a different on-disk structure, you will need to run the ipfs-ds-convert tool to migrate data into the new structures.
For more information on possible values for this configuration option, see docs/datastores.md
Default:
{
"mounts": [
{
"child": {
"path": "blocks",
"shardFunc": "/repo/flatfs/shard/v1/next-to-last/2",
"sync": true,
"type": "flatfs"
},
"mountpoint": "/blocks",
"prefix": "flatfs.datastore",
"type": "measure"
},
{
"child": {
"compression": "none",
"path": "datastore",
"type": "levelds"
},
"mountpoint": "/",
"prefix": "leveldb.datastore",
"type": "measure"
}
],
"type": "mount"
}
Type: object
Contains options for configuring IPFS node discovery mechanisms.
Options for ZeroConf Multicast DNS-SD peer discovery.
A boolean value for whether or not Multicast DNS-SD should be active.
Default: true
Type: bool
REMOVED: this is not configurable anymore in the new mDNS implementation.
Toggle and configure experimental features of Kubo. Experimental features are listed here.
Options for the HTTP gateway.
NOTE: support for /api/v0
under the gateway path is now deprecated. It will be removed in future versions: #10312.
When set to true, the gateway will only serve content already in the local repo and will not fetch files from the network.
Default: false
Type: bool
A boolean to configure whether DNSLink lookup for value in Host
HTTP header
should be performed. If DNSLink is present, the content path stored in the DNS TXT
record becomes the /
and the respective payload is returned to the client.
Default: false
Type: bool
An optional flag to explicitly configure whether this gateway responds to deserialized requests, or not. By default, it is enabled. When disabling this option, the gateway operates as a Trustless Gateway only: https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/trustless-gateway/.
Default: true
Type: flag
An optional flag to disable the pretty HTML error pages of the gateway. Instead,
a text/plain
page will be returned with the raw error message from Kubo.
It is useful for whitelabel or middleware deployments that wish to avoid
text/html
responses with IPFS branding and links on error pages in browsers.
Default: false
Type: flag
An optional flag to expose Kubo Routing
system on the gateway port
as an HTTP /routing/v1
endpoint on 127.0.0.1
.
Use reverse proxy to expose it on a different hostname.
This endpoint can be used by other Kubo instances, as illustrated in
delegated_routing_v1_http_proxy_test.go
.
Kubo will filter out routing results which are not actionable, for example, all
graphsync providers will be skipped. If you need a generic pass-through, see
standalone router implementation named someguy.
Default: false
Type: flag
Headers to set on gateway responses.
Default: {}
+ implicit CORS headers from boxo/gateway#AddAccessControlHeaders
and ipfs/specs#423
Type: object[string -> array[string]]
A url to redirect requests for /
to.
Default: ""
Type: string
(url)
REMOVED: this option is no longer necessary. Ignored since Kubo 0.18.
REMOVED: this option no longer available as of Kubo 0.20.
We are working on developing a modern replacement. To support our efforts, please leave a comment describing your use case in ipfs/specs#375.
REMOVED: see go-ipfs#7702
PublicGateways
is a dictionary for defining gateway behavior on specified hostnames.
Hostnames can optionally be defined with one or more wildcards.
Examples:
*.example.com
will match requests tohttp://foo.example.com/ipfs/*
orhttp://{cid}.ipfs.bar.example.com/*
.foo-*.example.com
will match requests tohttp://foo-bar.example.com/ipfs/*
orhttp://{cid}.ipfs.foo-xyz.example.com/*
.
An array of paths that should be exposed on the hostname.
Example:
{
"Gateway": {
"PublicGateways": {
"example.com": {
"Paths": ["/ipfs"],
}
}
}
}
Above enables http://example.com/ipfs/*
but not http://example.com/ipns/*
Default: []
Type: array[string]
A boolean to configure whether the gateway at the hostname provides Origin isolation between content roots.
-
true
- enables subdomain gateway athttp://*.{hostname}/
- Requires whitelist: make sure respective
Paths
are set. For example,Paths: ["/ipfs", "/ipns"]
are required forhttp://{cid}.ipfs.{hostname}
andhttp://{foo}.ipns.{hostname}
to work:"Gateway": { "PublicGateways": { "dweb.link": { "UseSubdomains": true, "Paths": ["/ipfs", "/ipns"] } } }
- Backward-compatible: requests for content paths such as
http://{hostname}/ipfs/{cid}
produce redirect tohttp://{cid}.ipfs.{hostname}
- Requires whitelist: make sure respective
-
false
- enables path gateway athttp://{hostname}/*
- Example:
"Gateway": { "PublicGateways": { "ipfs.io": { "UseSubdomains": false, "Paths": ["/ipfs", "/ipns"] } } }
- Example:
Default: false
Type: bool
A boolean to configure whether DNSLink for hostname present in Host
HTTP header should be resolved. Overrides global setting.
If Paths
are defined, they take priority over DNSLink.
Default: false
(DNSLink lookup enabled by default for every defined hostname)
Type: bool
An optional flag to explicitly configure whether subdomain gateway's redirects
(enabled by UseSubdomains: true
) should always inline a DNSLink name (FQDN)
into a single DNS label:
//example.com/ipns/example.net → HTTP 301 → //example-net.ipns.example.com
DNSLink name inlining allows for HTTPS on public subdomain gateways with single
label wildcard TLS certs (also enabled when passing X-Forwarded-Proto: https
),
and provides disjoint Origin per root CID when special rules like
https://publicsuffix.org, or a custom localhost logic in browsers like Brave
has to be applied.
Default: false
Type: flag
An optional flag to explicitly configure whether this gateway responds to deserialized requests, or not. By default, it is enabled. When disabling this option, the gateway operates as a Trustless Gateway only: https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/trustless-gateway/.
Default: same as global Gateway.DeserializedResponses
Type: flag
Default entries for localhost
hostname and loopback IPs are always present.
If additional config is provided for those hostnames, it will be merged on top of implicit values:
{
"Gateway": {
"PublicGateways": {
"localhost": {
"Paths": ["/ipfs", "/ipns"],
"UseSubdomains": true
}
}
}
}
It is also possible to remove a default by setting it to null
.
For example, to disable subdomain gateway on localhost
and make that hostname act the same as 127.0.0.1
:
$ ipfs config --json Gateway.PublicGateways '{"localhost": null }'
Below is a list of the most common public gateway setups.
-
Public subdomain gateway at
http://{cid}.ipfs.dweb.link
(each content root gets its own Origin)$ ipfs config --json Gateway.PublicGateways '{ "dweb.link": { "UseSubdomains": true, "Paths": ["/ipfs", "/ipns"] } }'
-
Backward-compatible: this feature enables automatic redirects from content paths to subdomains:
http://dweb.link/ipfs/{cid}
→http://{cid}.ipfs.dweb.link
-
X-Forwarded-Proto: if you run Kubo behind a reverse proxy that provides TLS, make it add a
X-Forwarded-Proto: https
HTTP header to ensure users are redirected tohttps://
, nothttp://
. It will also ensure DNSLink names are inlined to fit in a single DNS label, so they work fine with a wildcart TLS cert (details). The NGINX directive isproxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto "https";
.:http://dweb.link/ipfs/{cid}
→https://{cid}.ipfs.dweb.link
http://dweb.link/ipns/your-dnslink.site.example.com
→https://your--dnslink-site-example-com.ipfs.dweb.link
-
X-Forwarded-Host: we also support
X-Forwarded-Host: example.com
if you want to override subdomain gateway host from the original request:http://dweb.link/ipfs/{cid}
→http://{cid}.ipfs.example.com
-
-
Public path gateway at
http://ipfs.io/ipfs/{cid}
(no Origin separation)$ ipfs config --json Gateway.PublicGateways '{ "ipfs.io": { "UseSubdomains": false, "Paths": ["/ipfs", "/ipns"] } }'
-
Public DNSLink gateway resolving every hostname passed in
Host
header.$ ipfs config --json Gateway.NoDNSLink false
- Note that
NoDNSLink: false
is the default (it works out of the box unless set totrue
manually)
- Note that
-
Hardened, site-specific DNSLink gateway.
Disable fetching of remote data (
NoFetch: true
) and resolving DNSLink at unknown hostnames (NoDNSLink: true
). Then, enable DNSLink gateway only for the specific hostname (for which data is already present on the node), without exposing any content-addressingPaths
:$ ipfs config --json Gateway.NoFetch true $ ipfs config --json Gateway.NoDNSLink true $ ipfs config --json Gateway.PublicGateways '{ "en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org": { "NoDNSLink": false, "Paths": [] } }'
The unique PKI identity label for this configs peer. Set on init and never read, it's merely here for convenience. Ipfs will always generate the peerID from its keypair at runtime.
Type: string
(peer ID)
The base64 encoded protobuf describing (and containing) the node's private key.
Type: string
(base64 encoded)
This section includes internal knobs for various subsystems to allow advanced users with big or private infrastructures to fine-tune some behaviors without the need to recompile Kubo.
Be aware that making informed change here requires in-depth knowledge and most users should leave these untouched. All knobs listed here are subject to breaking changes between versions.
Internal.Bitswap
contains knobs for tuning bitswap resource utilization.
The knobs (below) document how their value should related to each other.
Whether their values should be raised or lowered should be determined
based on the metrics ipfs_bitswap_active_tasks
, ipfs_bitswap_pending_tasks
,
ipfs_bitswap_pending_block_tasks
and ipfs_bitswap_active_block_tasks
reported by bitswap.
These metrics can be accessed as the Prometheus endpoint at {Addresses.API}/debug/metrics/prometheus
(default: http://127.0.0.1:5001/debug/metrics/prometheus
)
The value of ipfs_bitswap_active_tasks
is capped by EngineTaskWorkerCount
.
The value of ipfs_bitswap_pending_tasks
is generally capped by the knobs below,
however its exact maximum value is hard to predict as it depends on task sizes
as well as number of requesting peers. However, as a rule of thumb,
during healthy operation this value should oscillate around a "typical" low value
(without hitting a plateau continuously).
If ipfs_bitswap_pending_tasks
is growing while ipfs_bitswap_active_tasks
is at its maximum then
the node has reached its resource limits and new requests are unable to be processed as quickly as they are coming in.
Raising resource limits (using the knobs below) could help, assuming the hardware can support the new limits.
The value of ipfs_bitswap_active_block_tasks
is capped by EngineBlockstoreWorkerCount
.
The value of ipfs_bitswap_pending_block_tasks
is indirectly capped by ipfs_bitswap_active_tasks
, but can be hard to
predict as it depends on the number of blocks involved in a peer task which can vary.
If the value of ipfs_bitswap_pending_block_tasks
is observed to grow,
while ipfs_bitswap_active_block_tasks
is at its maximum, there is indication that the number of
available block tasks is creating a bottleneck (either due to high-latency block operations,
or due to high number of block operations per bitswap peer task).
In such cases, try increasing the EngineBlockstoreWorkerCount
.
If this adjustment still does not increase the throughput of the node, there might
be hardware limitations like I/O or CPU.
Number of threads (goroutines) sending outgoing messages. Throttles the number of concurrent send operations.
Type: optionalInteger
(thread count, null
means default which is 8)
Number of threads for blockstore operations.
Used to throttle the number of concurrent requests to the block store.
The optimal value can be informed by the metrics ipfs_bitswap_pending_block_tasks
and ipfs_bitswap_active_block_tasks
.
This would be a number that depends on your hardware (I/O and CPU).
Type: optionalInteger
(thread count, null
means default which is 128)
Number of worker threads used for preparing and packaging responses before they are sent out.
This number should generally be equal to TaskWorkerCount
.
Type: optionalInteger
(thread count, null
means default which is 8)
Maximum number of bytes (across all tasks) pending to be processed and sent to any individual peer. This number controls fairness and can vary from 250Kb (very fair) to 10Mb (less fair, with more work dedicated to peers who ask for more). Values below 250Kb could cause thrashing. Values above 10Mb open the potential for aggressively-wanting peers to consume all resources and deteriorate the quality provided to less aggressively-wanting peers.
Type: optionalInteger
(byte count, null
means default which is 1MB)
This parameter determines how long to wait before looking for providers outside of bitswap. Other routing systems like the Amino DHT are able to provide results in less than a second, so lowering this number will allow faster peers lookups in some cases.
Type: optionalDuration
(null
means default which is 1s)
The sharding threshold used internally to decide whether a UnixFS directory should be sharded or not. This value is not strictly related to the size of the UnixFS directory block and any increases in the threshold should come with being careful that block sizes stay under 2MiB in order for them to be reliably transferable through the networking stack (IPFS peers on the public swarm tend to ignore requests for blocks bigger than 2MiB).
Decreasing this value to 1B is functionally equivalent to the previous experimental sharding option to shard all directories.
Type: optionalBytes
(null
means default which is 256KiB)
A time duration specifying how frequently to republish ipns records to ensure they stay fresh on the network.
Default: 4 hours.
Type: interval
or an empty string for the default.
A time duration specifying the value to set on ipns records for their validity lifetime.
Default: 48 hours.
Type: interval
or an empty string for the default.
The number of entries to store in an LRU cache of resolved ipns entries. Entries will be kept cached until their lifetime is expired.
Default: 128
Type: integer
(non-negative, 0 means the default)
Maximum duration for which entries are valid in the name system cache. Applied
to everything under /ipns/
namespace, allows you to cap
the Time-To-Live (TTL) of
IPNS Records
AND also DNSLink TXT records (when DoH-specific DNS.MaxCacheTTL
is not set to a lower value).
When Ipns.MaxCacheTTL
is set, it defines the upper bound limit of how long a
IPNS Name lookup result
will be cached and read from cache before checking for updates.
Examples:
"1m"
IPNS results are cached 1m or less (good compromise for system where faster updates are desired)."0s"
IPNS caching is effectively turned off (useful for testing, bad for production use)- Note: setting this to
0
will turn off TTL-based caching entirely. This is discouraged in production environments. It will make IPNS websites artificially slow because IPNS resolution results will expire as soon as they are retrieved, forcing expensive IPNS lookup to happen on every request. If you want near-real-time IPNS, set it to a low, but still sensible value, such as1m
.
- Note: setting this to
Default: No upper bound, TTL from IPNS Record (see ipns name publish --help
) is always respected.
Type: optionalDuration
Enables IPFS over pubsub experiment for publishing IPNS records in real time.
EXPERIMENTAL: read about current limitations at experimental-features.md#ipns-pubsub.
Default: disabled
Type: flag
Migration configures how migrations are downloaded and if the downloads are added to IPFS locally.
Sources in order of preference, where "IPFS" means use IPFS and "HTTPS" means use default gateways. Any other values are interpreted as hostnames for custom gateways. An empty list means "use default sources".
Default: ["HTTPS", "IPFS"]
Specifies whether or not to keep the migration after downloading it. Options are "discard", "cache", "pin". Empty string for default.
Default: cache
EXPERIMENTAL: read about current limitations at fuse.md.
FUSE mount point configuration options.
Mountpoint for /ipfs/
.
Default: /ipfs
Type: string
(filesystem path)
Mountpoint for /ipns/
.
Default: /ipns
Type: string
(filesystem path)
Sets the 'FUSE allow other'-option on the mount point.
Pinning configures the options available for pinning content (i.e. keeping content longer-term instead of as temporarily cached storage).
RemoteServices
maps a name for a remote pinning service to its configuration.
A remote pinning service is a remote service that exposes an API for managing that service's interest in long-term data storage.
The exposed API conforms to the specification defined at https://ipfs.github.io/pinning-services-api-spec/
Contains information relevant to utilizing the remote pinning service
Example:
{
"Pinning": {
"RemoteServices": {
"myPinningService": {
"API" : {
"Endpoint" : "https://pinningservice.tld:1234/my/api/path",
"Key" : "someOpaqueKey"
}
}
}
}
}
The HTTP(S) endpoint through which to access the pinning service
Example: "https://pinningservice.tld:1234/my/api/path"
Type: string
The key through which access to the pinning service is granted
Type: string
Contains additional opt-in policies for the remote pinning service.
When this policy is enabled, it follows changes to MFS and updates the pin for MFS root on the configured remote service.
A pin request to the remote service is sent only when MFS root CID has changed
and enough time has passed since the previous request (determined by RepinInterval
).
One can observe MFS pinning details by enabling debug via ipfs log level remotepinning/mfs debug
and switching back to error
when done.
Controls if this policy is active.
Default: false
Type: bool
Optional name to use for a remote pin that represents the MFS root CID. When left empty, a default name will be generated.
Default: "policy/{PeerID}/mfs"
, e.g. "policy/12.../mfs"
Type: string
Defines how often (at most) the pin request should be sent to the remote service.
If left empty, the default interval will be used. Values lower than 1m
will be ignored.
Default: "5m"
Type: duration
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Pubsub configures the ipfs pubsub
subsystem. To use, it must be enabled by
passing the --enable-pubsub-experiment
flag to the daemon
or via the Pubsub.Enabled
flag below.
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Enables the pubsub system.
Default: false
Type: flag
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Sets the default router used by pubsub to route messages to peers. This can be one of:
"floodsub"
- floodsub is a basic router that simply floods messages to all connected peers. This router is extremely inefficient but very reliable."gossipsub"
- gossipsub is a more advanced routing algorithm that will build an overlay mesh from a subset of the links in the network.
Default: "gossipsub"
Type: string
(one of "floodsub"
, "gossipsub"
, or ""
(apply default))
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Disables message signing and signature verification. Enable this option if you're operating in a completely trusted network.
It is not safe to disable signing even if you don't care who sent the message because spoofed messages can be used to silence real messages by intentionally re-using the real message's message ID.
Default: false
Type: bool
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Controls the time window within which duplicate messages, identified by Message ID, will be identified and won't be emitted again.
A smaller value for this parameter means that Pubsub messages in the cache will be garbage collected sooner, which can result in a smaller cache. At the same time, if there are slower nodes in the network that forward older messages, this can cause more duplicates to be propagated through the network.
Conversely, a larger value for this parameter means that Pubsub messages in the cache will be garbage collected later, which can result in a larger cache for the same traffic pattern. However, it is less likely that duplicates will be propagated through the network.
Default: see TimeCacheDuration
from go-libp2p-pubsub
Type: optionalDuration
DEPRECATED: See #9717
Determines how the time-to-live (TTL) countdown for deduplicating Pubsub messages is calculated.
The Pubsub seen messages cache is a LRU cache that keeps messages for up to a specified time duration. After this duration has elapsed, expired messages will be purged from the cache.
The last-seen
cache is a sliding-window cache. Every time a message is seen
again with the SeenMessagesTTL duration, its timestamp slides forward. This
keeps frequently occurring messages cached and prevents them from being
continually propagated, especially because of issues that might increase the
number of duplicate messages in the network.
The first-seen
cache will store new messages and purge them after the
SeenMessagesTTL duration, even if they are seen multiple times within this
duration.
Default: last-seen
(see go-libp2p-pubsub)
Type: optionalString
Configures the peering subsystem. The peering subsystem configures Kubo to connect to, remain connected to, and reconnect to a set of nodes. Nodes should use this subsystem to create "sticky" links between frequently useful peers to improve reliability.
Use-cases:
- An IPFS gateway connected to an IPFS cluster should peer to ensure that the gateway can always fetch content from the cluster.
- A dapp may peer embedded Kubo nodes with a set of pinning services or textile cafes/hubs.
- A set of friends may peer to ensure that they can always fetch each other's content.
When a node is added to the set of peered nodes, Kubo will:
- Protect connections to this node from the connection manager. That is, Kubo will never automatically close the connection to this node and connections to this node will not count towards the connection limit.
- Connect to this node on startup.
- Repeatedly try to reconnect to this node if the last connection dies or the node goes offline. This repeated re-connect logic is governed by a randomized exponential backoff delay ranging from ~5 seconds to ~10 minutes to avoid repeatedly reconnect to a node that's offline.
Peering can be asymmetric or symmetric:
- When symmetric, the connection will be protected by both nodes and will likely be very stable.
- When asymmetric, only one node (the node that configured peering) will protect the connection and attempt to re-connect to the peered node on disconnect. If the peered node is under heavy load and/or has a low connection limit, the connection may flap repeatedly. Be careful when asymmetrically peering to not overload peers.
The set of peers with which to peer.
{
"Peering": {
"Peers": [
{
"ID": "QmPeerID1",
"Addrs": ["/ip4/18.1.1.1/tcp/4001"]
},
{
"ID": "QmPeerID2",
"Addrs": ["/ip4/18.1.1.2/tcp/4001", "/ip4/18.1.1.2/udp/4001/quic-v1"]
}
]
}
...
}
Where ID
is the peer ID and Addrs
is a set of known addresses for the peer. If no addresses are specified, the Amino DHT will be queried.
Additional fields may be added in the future.
Default: empty.
Type: array[peering]
Sets the time between rounds of reproviding local content to the routing system.
- If unset, it uses the implicit safe default.
- If set to the value
"0"
it will disable content reproviding.
Note: disabling content reproviding will result in other nodes on the network not being able to discover that you have the objects that you have. If you want to have this disabled and keep the network aware of what you have, you must manually announce your content periodically.
Default: 22h
(DefaultReproviderInterval
)
Type: optionalDuration
(unset for the default)
Tells reprovider what should be announced. Valid strategies are:
"all"
- announce all CIDs of stored blocks- Order: root blocks of direct and recursive pins are announced first, then the rest of blockstore
"pinned"
- only announce pinned CIDs recursively (both roots and child blocks)- Order: root blocks of direct and recursive pins are announced first, then the child blocks of recursive pins
"roots"
- only announce the root block of explicitly pinned CIDs⚠️ BE CAREFUL: node withroots
strategy will not announce child blocks. It makes sense only for use cases where the entire DAG is fetched in full, and a graceful resume does not have to be guaranteed: the lack of child announcements means an interrupted retrieval won't be able to find providers for the missing block in the middle of a file, unless the peer happens to already be connected to a provider and ask for child CID over bitswap.
"flat"
- same asall
, announce all CIDs of stored blocks, but without prioritizing anything
Default: "all"
Type: optionalString
(unset for the default)
Contains options for content, peer, and IPNS routing mechanisms.
There are multiple routing options: "auto", "autoclient", "none", "dht", "dhtclient", and "custom".
-
DEFAULT: If unset, or set to "auto", your node will use the public IPFS DHT (aka "Amino") and parallel HTTP routers listed below for additional speed.
-
If set to "autoclient", your node will behave as in "auto" but without running a DHT server.
-
If set to "none", your node will use no routing system. You'll have to explicitly connect to peers that have the content you're looking for.
-
If set to "dht" (or "dhtclient"/"dhtserver"), your node will ONLY use the Amino DHT (no HTTP routers).
-
If set to "custom", all default routers are disabled, and only ones defined in
Routing.Routers
will be used.
When the DHT is enabled, it can operate in two modes: client and server.
-
In server mode, your node will query other peers for DHT records, and will respond to requests from other peers (both requests to store records and requests to retrieve records).
-
In client mode, your node will query the DHT as a client but will not respond to requests from other peers. This mode is less resource-intensive than server mode.
When Routing.Type
is set to auto
or dht
, your node will start as a DHT client, and
switch to a DHT server when and if it determines that it's reachable from the
public internet (e.g., it's not behind a firewall).
To force a specific Amino DHT-only mode, client or server, set Routing.Type
to
dhtclient
or dhtserver
respectively. Please do not set this to dhtserver
unless you're sure your node is reachable from the public network.
When Routing.Type
is set to auto
or autoclient
your node will accelerate some types of routing
by leveraging HTTP endpoints compatible with Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API
introduced in IPIP-337
in addition to the Amino DHT.
By default, an instance of IPNI
at https://cid.contact is used.
Alternative routing rules can be configured in Routing.Routers
after setting Routing.Type
to custom
.
Default: auto
(DHT + IPNI)
Type: optionalString
(null
/missing means the default)
This alternative Amino DHT client with a Full-Routing-Table strategy will do a complete scan of the DHT every hour and record all nodes found. Then when a lookup is tried instead of having to go through multiple Kad hops it is able to find the 20 final nodes by looking up the in-memory recorded network table.
This means sustained higher memory to store the routing table and extra CPU and network bandwidth for each network scan. However the latency of individual read/write operations should be ~10x faster and provide throughput up to 6 million times faster on larger datasets!
This is not compatible with Routing.Type
custom
. If you are using composable routers
you can configure this individually on each router.
When it is enabled:
- Client DHT operations (reads and writes) should complete much faster
- The provider will now use a keyspace sweeping mode allowing to keep alive
CID sets that are multiple orders of magnitude larger.
- The standard Bucket-Routing-Table DHT will still run for the DHT server (if the DHT server is enabled). This means the classical routing table will still be used to answer other nodes. This is critical to maintain to not harm the network.
- The operations
ipfs stats dht
will default to showing information about the accelerated DHT client
Caveats:
- Running the accelerated client likely will result in more resource consumption (connections, RAM, CPU, bandwidth)
- Users that are limited in the number of parallel connections their machines/networks can perform will likely suffer
- The resource usage is not smooth as the client crawls the network in rounds and reproviding is similarly done in rounds
- Users who previously had a lot of content but were unable to advertise it on the network will see an increase in egress bandwidth as their nodes start to advertise all of their CIDs into the network. If you have lots of data entering your node that you don't want to advertise, then consider using Reprovider Strategies to reduce the number of CIDs that you are reproviding. Similarly, if you are running a node that deals mostly with short-lived temporary data (e.g. you use a separate node for ingesting data then for storing and serving it) then you may benefit from using Strategic Providing to prevent advertising of data that you ultimately will not have.
- Currently, the DHT is not usable for queries for the first 5-10 minutes of operation as the routing table is being
prepared. This means operations like searching the DHT for particular peers or content will not work initially.
- You can see if the DHT has been initially populated by running
ipfs stats dht
- You can see if the DHT has been initially populated by running
- Currently, the accelerated DHT client is not compatible with LAN-based DHTs and will not perform operations against them
Default: false
Type: flag
EXPERIMENTAL: Routing.LoopbackAddressesOnLanDHT
configuration may change in future release
Whether loopback addresses (e.g. 127.0.0.1) should not be ignored on the local LAN DHT.
Most users do not need this setting. It can be useful during testing, when multiple Kubo nodes run on the same machine but some of them do not have Discovery.MDNS.Enabled
.
Default: false
Type: bool
(missing means false
)
EXPERIMENTAL: Routing.Routers
configuration may change in future release
Map of additional Routers.
Allows for extending the default routing (Amino DHT) with alternative Router implementations.
The map key is a name of a Router, and the value is its configuration.
Default: {}
Type: object[string->object]
EXPERIMENTAL: Routing.Routers
configuration may change in future release
It specifies the routing type that will be created.
Currently supported types:
http
simple delegated routing based on HTTP protocol from IPIP-337dht
provides decentralized routing based on libp2p's kad-dhtparallel
andsequential
: Helpers that can be used to run several routers sequentially or in parallel.
Type: string
EXPERIMENTAL: Routing.Routers
configuration may change in future release
Parameters needed to create the specified router. Supported params per router type:
HTTP:
Endpoint
(mandatory): URL that will be used to connect to a specified router.MaxProvideBatchSize
: This number determines the maximum amount of CIDs sent per batch. Servers might not accept more than 100 elements per batch. 100 elements by default.MaxProvideConcurrency
: It determines the number of threads used when providing content. GOMAXPROCS by default.
DHT:
"Mode"
: Mode used by the Amino DHT. Possible values: "server", "client", "auto""AcceleratedDHTClient"
: Set totrue
if you want to use the acceleratedDHT."PublicIPNetwork"
: Set totrue
to create aWAN
DHT. Set tofalse
to create aLAN
DHT.
Parallel:
Routers
: A list of routers that will be executed in parallel:Name:string
: Name of the router. It should be one of the previously added toRouters
list.Timeout:duration
: Local timeout. It accepts strings compatible with Gotime.ParseDuration(string)
(10s
,1m
,2h
). Time will start counting when this specific router is called, and it will stop when the router returns, or we reach the specified timeout.ExecuteAfter:duration
: Providing this param will delay the execution of that router at the specified time. It accepts strings compatible with Gotime.ParseDuration(string)
(10s
,1m
,2h
).IgnoreErrors:bool
: It will specify if that router should be ignored if an error occurred.
Timeout:duration
: Global timeout. It accepts strings compatible with Gotime.ParseDuration(string)
(10s
,1m
,2h
).
Sequential:
Routers
: A list of routers that will be executed in order:Name:string
: Name of the router. It should be one of the previously added toRouters
list.Timeout:duration
: Local timeout. It accepts strings compatible with Gotime.ParseDuration(string)
. Time will start counting when this specific router is called, and it will stop when the router returns, or we reach the specified timeout.IgnoreErrors:bool
: It will specify if that router should be ignored if an error occurred.
Timeout:duration
: Global timeout. It accepts strings compatible with Gotime.ParseDuration(string)
.
Default: {}
(use the safe implicit defaults)
Type: object[string->string]
Methods:map
will define which routers will be executed per method. The key will be the name of the method: "provide"
, "find-providers"
, "find-peers"
, "put-ipns"
, "get-ipns"
. All methods must be added to the list.
The value will contain:
RouterName:string
: Name of the router. It should be one of the previously added toRouting.Routers
list.
Type: object[string->object]
Examples:
Complete example using 2 Routers, Amino DHT (LAN/WAN) and parallel.
$ ipfs config Routing.Type --json '"custom"'
$ ipfs config Routing.Routers.WanDHT --json '{
"Type": "dht",
"Parameters": {
"Mode": "auto",
"PublicIPNetwork": true,
"AcceleratedDHTClient": false
}
}'
$ ipfs config Routing.Routers.LanDHT --json '{
"Type": "dht",
"Parameters": {
"Mode": "auto",
"PublicIPNetwork": false,
"AcceleratedDHTClient": false
}
}'
$ ipfs config Routing.Routers.ParallelHelper --json '{
"Type": "parallel",
"Parameters": {
"Routers": [
{
"RouterName" : "LanDHT",
"IgnoreErrors" : true,
"Timeout": "3s"
},
{
"RouterName" : "WanDHT",
"IgnoreErrors" : false,
"Timeout": "5m",
"ExecuteAfter": "2s"
}
]
}
}'
ipfs config Routing.Methods --json '{
"find-peers": {
"RouterName": "ParallelHelper"
},
"find-providers": {
"RouterName": "ParallelHelper"
},
"get-ipns": {
"RouterName": "ParallelHelper"
},
"provide": {
"RouterName": "ParallelHelper"
},
"put-ipns": {
"RouterName": "ParallelHelper"
}
}'
Options for configuring the swarm.
An array of addresses (multiaddr netmasks) to not dial. By default, IPFS nodes advertise all addresses, even internal ones. This makes it easier for nodes on the same network to reach each other. Unfortunately, this means that an IPFS node will try to connect to one or more private IP addresses whenever dialing another node, even if this other node is on a different network. This may trigger netscan alerts on some hosting providers or cause strain in some setups.
The server
configuration profile fills up this list with sensible defaults,
preventing dials to all non-routable IP addresses (e.g., /ip4/192.168.0.0/ipcidr/16
,
which is the multiaddress representation of 192.168.0.0/16
) but you should always
check settings against your own network and/or hosting provider.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
A boolean value that when set to true, will cause ipfs to not keep track of bandwidth metrics. Disabling bandwidth metrics can lead to a slight performance improvement, as well as a reduction in memory usage.
Default: false
Type: bool
Disable automatic NAT port forwarding.
When not disabled (default), Kubo asks NAT devices (e.g., routers), to open up an external port and forward it to the port Kubo is running on. When this works (i.e., when your router supports NAT port forwarding), it makes the local Kubo node accessible from the public internet.
Default: false
Type: bool
Enable hole punching for NAT traversal when port forwarding is not possible.
When enabled, Kubo will coordinate with the counterparty using
a relayed connection,
to upgrade to a direct connection
through a NAT/firewall whenever possible.
This feature requires Swarm.RelayClient.Enabled
to be set to true
.
Default: true
Type: flag
REMOVED
See Swarm.RelayClient
instead.
Configuration options for the relay client to use relay services.
Default: {}
Type: object
Enables "automatic relay user" mode for this node.
Your node will automatically use public relays from the network if it detects
that it cannot be reached from the public internet (e.g., it's behind a
firewall) and get a /p2p-circuit
address from a public relay.
Default: true
Type: flag
Your node will use these statically configured relay servers instead of discovering public relays (Circuit Relay v2) from the network.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
Configuration options for the relay service that can be provided to other peers on the network (Circuit Relay v2).
Default: {}
Type: object
Enables providing /p2p-circuit
v2 relay service to other peers on the network.
NOTE: This is the service/server part of the relay system.
Disabling this will prevent this node from running as a relay server.
Use Swarm.RelayClient.Enabled
for turning your node into a relay user.
Default: true
Type: flag
Limits are applied to every relayed connection.
Default: {}
Type: object[string -> string]
Time limit before a relayed connection is reset.
Default: "2m"
Type: duration
Limit of data relayed (in each direction) before a relayed connection is reset.
Default: 131072
(128 kb)
Type: optionalInteger
Duration of a new or refreshed reservation.
Default: "1h"
Type: duration
Maximum number of active relay slots.
Default: 128
Type: optionalInteger
Maximum number of open relay connections for each peer.
Default: 16
Type: optionalInteger
Size of the relayed connection buffers.
Default: 2048
Type: optionalInteger
Maximum number of reservations originating from the same peer.
Default: 4
Type: optionalInteger
Maximum number of reservations originating from the same IP.
Default: 8
Type: optionalInteger
Maximum number of reservations originating from the same ASN.
Default: 32
Type: optionalInteger
REMOVED
Replaced with Swarm.RelayService.Enabled
.
REMOVED
Set Swarm.Transports.Network.Relay
to false
instead.
REMOVED
Please use AutoNAT.ServiceMode
.
The connection manager determines which and how many connections to keep and can be configured to keep. Kubo currently supports two connection managers:
- none: never close idle connections.
- basic: the default connection manager.
By default, this section is empty and the implicit defaults defined below are used.
Sets the type of connection manager to use, options are: "none"
(no connection
management) and "basic"
.
Default: "basic".
Type: optionalString
(default when unset or empty)
The basic connection manager uses a "high water", a "low water", and internal
scoring to periodically close connections to free up resources. When a node
using the basic connection manager reaches HighWater
idle connections, it will
close the least useful ones until it reaches LowWater
idle connections.
The connection manager considers a connection idle if:
- It has not been explicitly protected by some subsystem. For example, Bitswap will protect connections to peers from which it is actively downloading data, the DHT will protect some peers for routing, and the peering subsystem will protect all "peered" nodes.
- It has existed for longer than the
GracePeriod
.
Example:
{
"Swarm": {
"ConnMgr": {
"Type": "basic",
"LowWater": 100,
"HighWater": 200,
"GracePeriod": "30s"
}
}
}
LowWater is the number of connections that the basic connection manager will trim down to.
Default: 32
Type: optionalInteger
HighWater is the number of connections that, when exceeded, will trigger a connection GC operation. Note: protected/recently formed connections don't count towards this limit.
Default: 96
Type: optionalInteger
GracePeriod is a time duration that new connections are immune from being closed by the connection manager.
Default: "20s"
Type: optionalDuration
Learn more about Kubo's usage of libp2p Network Resource Manager in the dedicated resource management docs.
Enables the libp2p Resource Manager using limits based on the defaults and/or other configuration as discussed in libp2p resource management.
Default: true
Type: flag
This is the max amount of memory to allow libp2p to use. libp2p's resource manager will prevent additional resource creation while this limit is reached. This value is also used to scale the limit on various resources at various scopes when the default limits (discussed in libp2p resource management) are used. For example, increasing this value will increase the default limit for incoming connections.
It is possible to inspect the runtime limits via ipfs swarm resources --help
.
Default: [TOTAL_SYSTEM_MEMORY]/2
Type: optionalBytes
This is the maximum number of file descriptors to allow libp2p to use. libp2p's resource manager will prevent additional file descriptor consumption while this limit is reached.
This param is ignored on Windows.
Default [TOTAL_SYSTEM_FILE_DESCRIPTORS]/2
Type: optionalInteger
A list of multiaddrs that can bypass normal system limits (but are still limited by the allowlist scope). Convenience config around go-libp2p-resource-manager#Allowlist.Add.
Default: []
Type: array[string]
(multiaddrs)
Configuration section for libp2p transports. An empty configuration will apply the defaults.
Configuration section for libp2p network transports. Transports enabled in
this section will be used for dialing. However, to receive connections on these
transports, multiaddrs for these transports must be added to Addresses.Swarm
.
Supported transports are: QUIC, TCP, WS, Relay, WebTransport and WebRTCDirect.
Each field in this section is a flag
.
TCP is a simple and widely deployed transport, it should be compatible with most implementations and network configurations. TCP doesn't directly support encryption and/or multiplexing, so libp2p will layer a security & multiplexing transport over it.
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
- /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001 (default)
- /ip6/::/tcp/4001 (default)
Websocket is a transport usually used to connect to non-browser-based IPFS nodes from browser-based js-ipfs nodes.
While it's enabled by default for dialing, Kubo doesn't listen on this transport by default.
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
- /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4002/ws
- /ip6/::/tcp/4002/ws
QUIC is the most widely used transport by Kubo nodes. It is a UDP-based transport with built-in encryption and multiplexing. The primary benefits over TCP are:
- It takes 1 round trip to establish a connection (our TCP transport currently takes 4).
- No Head-of-Line blocking.
- It doesn't require a file descriptor per connection, easing the load on the OS.
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic-v1
(default)/ip6/::/udp/4001/quic-v1
(default)
Libp2p Relay proxy
transport that forms connections by hopping between multiple libp2p nodes.
Allows IPFS node to connect to other peers using their /p2p-circuit
multiaddrs. This transport is primarily useful for bypassing firewalls and
NATs.
See also:
- Docs: Libp2p Circuit Relay
Swarm.RelayClient.Enabled
for getting a public/p2p-circuit
address when behind a firewall.Swarm.EnableHolePunching
for direct connection upgrade through relaySwarm.RelayService.Enabled
for becoming a limited relay for other peers
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
- This transport is special. Any node that enables this transport can receive inbound connections on this transport, without specifying a listen address.
A new feature of go-libp2p
is the WebTransport transport.
This is a spiritual descendant of WebSocket but over HTTP/3
.
Since this runs on top of HTTP/3
it uses QUIC
under the hood.
We expect it to perform worst than QUIC
because of the extra overhead,
this transport is really meant at agents that cannot do TCP
or QUIC
(like browsers).
WebTransport is a new transport protocol currently under development by the IETF and the W3C, and already implemented by Chrome. Conceptually, it’s like WebSocket run over QUIC instead of TCP. Most importantly, it allows browsers to establish (secure!) connections to WebTransport servers without the need for CA-signed certificates, thereby enabling any js-libp2p node running in a browser to connect to any kubo node, with zero manual configuration involved.
The previous alternative is websocket secure, which require installing a reverse proxy and TLS certificates manually.
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic-v1/webtransport
(default)/ip6/::/udp/4001/quic-v1/webtransport
(default)
WebRTC Direct is a transport protocol that provides another way for browsers to connect to the rest of the libp2p network. WebRTC Direct allows for browser nodes to connect to other nodes without special configuration, such as TLS certificates. This can be useful for browser nodes that do not yet support WebTransport, which is still relatively new and has known issues.
Enabling this transport allows Kubo node to act on /udp/4001/webrtc-direct
listeners defined in Addresses.Swarm
, Addresses.Announce
or
Addresses.AppendAnnounce
.
Note
WebRTC Direct is browser-to-node. It cannot be used to connect a browser node to a node that is behind a NAT or firewall (without UPnP port mapping). The browser-to-private requires using normal WebRTC, which is currently being worked on in go-libp2p#2009.
Default: Enabled
Type: flag
Listen Addresses:
/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/webrtc-direct
(default)/ip6/::/udp/4001/webrtc-direct
(default)
Configuration section for libp2p security transports. Transports enabled in this section will be used to secure unencrypted connections.
This does not concern all the QUIC transports which use QUIC's builtin encryption.
Security transports are configured with the priority
type.
When establishing an outbound connection, Kubo will try each security transport in priority order (lower first), until it finds a protocol that the receiver supports. When establishing an inbound connection, Kubo will let the initiator choose the protocol, but will refuse to use any of the disabled transports.
Supported transports are: TLS (priority 100) and Noise (priority 200).
No default priority will ever be less than 100. Lower values have precedence.
TLS (1.3) is the default security transport as of Kubo 0.5.0. It's also the most scrutinized and trusted security transport.
Default: 100
Type: priority
REMOVED: support for SECIO has been removed. Please remove this option from your config.
Noise is slated to replace TLS as the cross-platform, default libp2p protocol due to ease of implementation. It is currently enabled by default but with low priority as it's not yet widely supported.
Default: 200
Type: priority
Configuration section for libp2p multiplexer transports. Transports enabled in this section will be used to multiplex duplex connections.
This does not concern all the QUIC transports which use QUIC's builtin muxing.
Multiplexer transports are configured the same way security transports are, with
the priority
type. Like with security transports, the initiator gets their
first choice.
Supported transport is only: Yamux (priority 100)
No default priority will ever be less than 100.
Yamux is the default multiplexer used when communicating between Kubo nodes.
Default: 100
Type: priority
REMOVED: See #9958
Support for Mplex has been removed from Kubo and go-libp2p. Please remove this option from your config.
Options for configuring DNS resolution for DNSLink and /dns*
Multiaddrs.
Map of FQDNs to custom resolver URLs.
This allows for overriding the default DNS resolver provided by the operating system, and using different resolvers per domain or TLD (including ones from alternative, non-ICANN naming systems).
Example:
{
"DNS": {
"Resolvers": {
"eth.": "https://dns.eth.limo/dns-query",
"crypto.": "https://resolver.unstoppable.io/dns-query",
"libre.": "https://ns1.iriseden.fr/dns-query",
".": "https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"
}
}
}
Be mindful that:
- Currently only
https://
URLs for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) endpoints are supported as values. - The default catch-all resolver is the cleartext one provided by your operating system. It can be overridden by adding a DoH entry for the DNS root indicated by
.
as illustrated above. - Out-of-the-box support for selected decentralized TLDs relies on a centralized service which is provided on best-effort basis. The implicit DoH resolvers are:
To get all the benefits of a decentralized naming system we strongly suggest setting DoH endpoint to an empty string and running own decentralized resolver as catch-all one on localhost.
{ "eth.": "https://resolver.cloudflare-eth.com/dns-query", "crypto.": "https://resolver.cloudflare-eth.com/dns-query" }
Default: {}
Type: object[string -> string]
Maximum duration for which entries are valid in the DoH cache.
This allows you to cap the Time-To-Live suggested by the DNS response (RFC2181).
If present, the upper bound is applied to DoH resolvers in DNS.Resolvers
.
Note: this does NOT work with Go's default DNS resolver. To make this a global setting, add a .
entry to DNS.Resolvers
first.
Examples:
"1m"
DNS entries are kept for 1 minute or less."0s"
DNS entries expire as soon as they are retrieved.
Default: Respect DNS Response TTL
Type: optionalDuration
Options to configure the default options used for ingesting data, in commands such as ipfs add
or ipfs block put
. All affected commands are detailed per option.
Note that using flags will override the options defined here.
The default CID version. Commands affected: ipfs add
.
Default: 0
Type: optionalInteger
The default UnixFS raw leaves option. Commands affected: ipfs add
, ipfs files write
.
Default: false
if CidVersion=0
; true
if CidVersion=1
Type: flag
The default UnixFS chunker. Commands affected: ipfs add
.
Default: size-262144
Type: optionalString
The default hash function. Commands affected: ipfs add
, ipfs block put
, ipfs dag put
.
Default: sha2-256
Type: optionalString
Options to configure agent version announced to the swarm, and leveraging other peers version for detecting when there is time to update.
Optional suffix to the AgentVersion presented by ipfs id
and exposed via libp2p identify protocol.
The value from config takes precedence over value passed via ipfs daemon --agent-version-suffix
.
Note
Setting a custom version suffix helps with ecosystem analysis, such as Amino DHT reports published at https://stats.ipfs.network
Default: ""
(no suffix, or value from ipfs daemon --agent-version-suffix=
)
Type: optionalString
Observe the AgentVersion of swarm peers and log warning when
SwarmCheckPercentThreshold
of peers runs version higher than this node.
Default: true
Type: flag
Control the percentage of kubo/
peers running new version required to
trigger update warning.
Default: 5
Type: optionalInteger
(1-100)