# \[solved\]counterpartyd dosent work on testnet **URL:** \ **Category:** Counterparty\ **Created:** [March 18, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/solved-counterpartyd-dosent-work-on-testnet/189 "2014-03-18T19:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![bitcoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@bitcoiner](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/bitcoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/solved-counterpartyd-dosent-work-on-testnet/189/1 "2014-03-18T19:01:55Z")

Hello, I have two instances of bitcoin-qt running, one on mainnet and one on testnet. I also want to run two instances of counterpartyd on both networks. The mainnet of counterpartyd is working well But the testnet counterpartyd not working. I get this logs when I try to open it: `
>counterpartyd --testnet --testcoin server
>echo off
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 478, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 285, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 967, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 1005, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 963, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 808, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 746, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connection.py", line 95, in connect
ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\util.py", line 634, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 189, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 276, in __init__
raise x
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 272, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 451, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
socket.error: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the re
mote host

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 324, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 528, in urlopen
raise MaxRetryError(self, url, e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ra
w2.github.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /PhantomPhreak/counter
partyd/master/versions.json (Caused by : [Errno 10054] An
existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\util.py", line 293, in
versions_check
response = requests.get(host, headers={'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
55, in get
return request('get', url,**kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
44, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 382, in request
resp = self.send(prep,**send_kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 485, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 372, in send
raise ConnectionError(e)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='raw2.github.com',
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /PhantomPhreak/counterpartyd/master/v
ersions.json (Caused by : [Errno 10054] An existing connec
tion was forcibly closed by the remote host)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 59
7, in
util.versions_check(db)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\util.py", line 296, in
versions_check
raise exceptions.DatabaseVersionError('Unable to check client, database vers
ions. How's your Internet access?')
lib.exceptions.DatabaseVersionError: Unable to check client, database versions.
How's your Internet access?
` I tried to delete the database file in the Roaming\CounterParty\Counterpartyd dir: counterpartyd.9.testnet.db, counterpartyd.9.testnet.db-shm, counterpartyd.9.testnet.db-wal and got this logs: `
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 478, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 285, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 967, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 1005, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 963, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 808, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 746, in send
self.connect()
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 724, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\socket.py", line 404, in create_connection
raise err
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\socket.py", line 395, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
socket.error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machi
ne actively refused it

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 324, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 528, in urlopen
raise MaxRetryError(self, url, e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='loc
alhost', port=3001): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/addr/mvCounterpartyXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXW24Hef (Caused by : [Errno 10061] No connection
could be made because the target machine actively refused it)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 80
0, in
bitcoin.get_btc_balance(config.UNSPENDABLE, normalize=False)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\bitcoin.py", line 446,
in get_btc_balance
r = requests.get(config.INSIGHT + '/api/addr/' + address)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
55, in get
return request('get', url,**kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
44, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 382, in request
resp = self.send(prep,**send_kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 485, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 372, in send
raise ConnectionError(e)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=3
001): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/addr/mvCounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXW24He
f (Caused by : [Errno 10061] No connection could be made b
ecause the target machine actively refused it)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 80
2, in
raise exceptions.InsightError('Could not connect to Insight server.')
lib.exceptions.InsightError: Could not connect to Insight server.
` After this run the deleted files are recreated and if I runs again the `counterpartyd --testnet --testcoin server` command I am getting the first log one more time. Can someone tell me what this is? ---

**Author:** ![PhantomPhreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@PhantomPhreak](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/PhantomPhreak)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/solved-counterpartyd-dosent-work-on-testnet/189/2 "2014-03-18T20:41:47Z")

[quote author=bitcoiner link=topic=189.msg1363#msg1363 date=1395183715] Hello, I have two instances of bitcoin-qt running, one on mainnet and one on testnet. I also want to run two instances of counterpartyd on both networks. The mainnet of counterpartyd is working well But the testnet counterpartyd not working. I get this logs when I try to open it: `
>counterpartyd --testnet --testcoin server
>echo off
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 478, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 285, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 967, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 1005, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 963, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 808, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 746, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connection.py", line 95, in connect
ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\util.py", line 634, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 189, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 276, in __init__
raise x
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 272, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\ssl.py", line 451, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
socket.error: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the re
mote host

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 324, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 528, in urlopen
raise MaxRetryError(self, url, e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ra
w2.github.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /PhantomPhreak/counter
partyd/master/versions.json (Caused by : [Errno 10054] An
existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\util.py", line 293, in
versions_check
response = requests.get(host, headers={'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
55, in get
return request('get', url,**kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
44, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 382, in request
resp = self.send(prep,**send_kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 485, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 372, in send
raise ConnectionError(e)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='raw2.github.com',
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /PhantomPhreak/counterpartyd/master/v
ersions.json (Caused by : [Errno 10054] An existing connec
tion was forcibly closed by the remote host)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 59
7, in
util.versions_check(db)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\util.py", line 296, in
versions_check
raise exceptions.DatabaseVersionError('Unable to check client, database vers
ions. How's your Internet access?')
lib.exceptions.DatabaseVersionError: Unable to check client, database versions.
How's your Internet access?
` I tried to delete the database file in the Roaming\CounterParty\Counterpartyd dir: counterpartyd.9.testnet.db, counterpartyd.9.testnet.db-shm, counterpartyd.9.testnet.db-wal and got this logs: `
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 478, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 285, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 967, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 1005, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 963, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 808, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 746, in send
self.connect()
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\http\\client.py", line 724, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\socket.py", line 404, in create_connection
raise err
File "c:\\Python32\\Lib\\socket.py", line 395, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
socket.error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machi
ne actively refused it

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 324, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\packages\\urlli
b3\\connectionpool.py", line 528, in urlopen
raise MaxRetryError(self, url, e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='loc
alhost', port=3001): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/addr/mvCounterpartyXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXW24Hef (Caused by : [Errno 10061] No connection
could be made because the target machine actively refused it)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 80
0, in
bitcoin.get_btc_balance(config.UNSPENDABLE, normalize=False)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\lib\\bitcoin.py", line 446,
in get_btc_balance
r = requests.get(config.INSIGHT + '/api/addr/' + address)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
55, in get
return request('get', url,**kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\api.py", line
44, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 382, in request
resp = self.send(prep,**send_kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\sessions.py",
line 485, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\requests\\adapters.py",
line 372, in send
raise ConnectionError(e)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=3
001): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/addr/mvCounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXW24He
f (Caused by : [Errno 10061] No connection could be made b
ecause the target machine actively refused it)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\\XCP\\counterpartyd_build\\dist\\counterpartyd\\counterpartyd.py", line 80
2, in
raise exceptions.InsightError('Could not connect to Insight server.')
lib.exceptions.InsightError: Could not connect to Insight server.
` After this run the deleted files are recreated and if I runs again the `counterpartyd --testnet --testcoin server` command I am getting the first log one more time. Can someone tell me what this is? [/quote] To run counterpartyd on testnet, you need to run an Insight server (or run with [tt]–force[/tt]). ---

**Author:** ![bitcoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@bitcoiner](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/bitcoiner)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/solved-counterpartyd-dosent-work-on-testnet/189/3 "2014-03-18T22:36:22Z")

Thank you! the --force trick solved it why do i need it and what is an Insight server? btw I see that the testnet block indexing is crazy faster than the maintest. Is this normal? How can I speedup the indexing on the mainet? Thanks again. ---

**Author:** ![porqupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@porqupine](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/porqupine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/solved-counterpartyd-dosent-work-on-testnet/189/4 "2014-03-19T13:33:05Z")

[https://github.com/bitpay/insight](https://github.com/bitpay/insight) I’m not sure you can get the reindex to be any faster in any simple way - the testnet blocks are much smaller than the mainnet ones.