Falcon is a port of the official IPFS node implementation Kubo. It is one critical component of the Gateway3 project, which tries to provide a decentralized IPFS gateway alternative. The falcon node is able to run by its own and acts like a normal IPFS node. However, it needs to join the Gateway3 protocol in order to make its service accessible from the world.
Falcon checks runs against major Gateway APIs to ensure they return expected response.
The checks run requires subdomain to work.
However, localhost does not support subdomain by default.
We use local dnsmasq service to mock the DNS for localhost resolution.
Use brew to install and start dnsmasq on MacOS:
brew install dnsmasq
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
Add the following line to /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf and restart dnsmasq.
address=/localhost/127.0.0.1
Update resolver so that DNS query for domain localhost is forwarded to dnsmasq:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/resolver
Create a file /etc/resolver/localhost with content:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
Run make under the repo directory to start Falcon node in loner mode.
The loner mode is the same as prod or dev mode except it does not communicate with other Gateway3 services.
In this mode, you can test Falcon's API using end-to-end checks by running make checks.
The end-to-end checks report successes or failures for varioues APIs.
It is recommended to run checks against changes made to node.
Run make prod or make dev to start other modes.