Playing with the Network
Our interactive tutorials help you learn about the the decentralized web by writing code and solving challenges:
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IPFS is all about networking! Included are a useful set of commands to aid in observing the network.
See who you’re directly connected to:
ipfs swarm peers
Manually connect to a specific peer. If the peer below doesn’t work, choose one from the output of ipfs swarm peers.
ipfs swarm connect /ip4/104.236.176.52/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLnSGccFuZQJzRadHn95W2CrSFmZuTdDWP8HXaHca9z
Search for a given peer on the network:
ipfs dht findpeer QmSoLnSGccFuZQJzRadHn95W2CrSFmZuTdDWP8HXaHca9z