Hello everyone 👋

What a busy week.

The first full week of self onboarding for the network has run pretty smoothly. We now have 262 nodes in the network overall, 22 of them self on-boarded, with an additional 23 in the process of being setup.

45 new nodes in 6 days!

In the coming few weeks we will be moving from a manual activation switch in the network (which we're using for testing and feedback at the moment), to a fully automated process.

We'll also be lifting the restrictions around the number of nodes that a single individual can run.

Within Edge Host the dApps themselves - Agent, Host and CDN - are all automatically updated. Edge CLI ( edge-cli ) however needs to be updated manually by those running a self on-boarded node.

We're improving it all the time, with daily builds being pushed to the APT repository at archive.edge.network. Version 1.2 was released yesterday containing minor fixes and introducing the stop command.

We also removed the risk of starting Agent more than once, and have improved the flexibility in the auth component, adding the ability to use env variables.

We are working towards opening up the Github repository for edge-cli to allow access to release notes and the like, and are looking at methods for letting users know that there's an update.

In the meantime, here's how you update it:

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install edge-cli

Easy.

As expected, the new nodes coming in to the network unearthed a few items that needed attention, and this has been our primary focus this week. For example, we found a case whereby Host was failing to properly resolve DNS for origin domains for the Content Distribution service in certain cases, which was as a result of issues with local resolvers. The fix for this was to build in a call to an internal resolver in the network.