Public Testnet

If you just want to get started experimenting without building any physical networks, you are welcome to join the Public Reticulum Testnet. The testnet is just that, an informal network for testing and experimenting. It will be up most of the time, and anyone can join, but it also means that there's no guarantees for service availability.

Please note! For everyday use of Reticulum, such as for messaging and other communications, it is much better to use one or more of the community-provided public entrypoints. Please see the next section for details.

The testnet runs the very latest version of Reticulum (often even a short while before it is publicly released). Sometimes experimental versions of Reticulum might be deployed to nodes on the testnet, which means strange behaviour can occur. If none of that scares you, you can join the testnet via either TCP or I2P.

Just add one of the following interfaces to your Reticulum configuration file:

# TCP/IP interface to the Dublin Hub
  [[RNS Testnet Dublin]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = dublin.connect.reticulum.network
    target_port = 4965

# TCP/IP interface to the BetweenTheBorders Hub (community-provided)
  [[RNS Testnet BetweenTheBorders]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = reticulum.betweentheborders.com
    target_port = 4242

# Interface to I2P Hub A
  [[RNS Testnet I2P Hub A]]
    type = I2PInterface
    enabled = yes
    peers = g3br23bvx3lq5uddcsjii74xgmn6y5q325ovrkq2zw2wbzbqgbuq.b32.i2p

The testnet also contains a number of Nomad Network nodes, and LXMF propagation nodes.

Community Entrypoints

A number of publicly available entrypoints to Reticulum networks have been provided by the community. For everyday use, it is recommended to use these instead of the testnet.

You can connect your devices or instances to one or more of these to gain access to any Reticulum networks they are physically connected to.

Ideally, set up a Reticulum Transport Node that your own devices can reach locally, and then connect that transport node to a couple of public entrypoints. This will provide efficient connections and redundancy in case any of them go down.

# These are community-provided public Reticulum entrypoints
# served over TCP, and available over the public Internet.

  [[dismails TCP Interface]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = rns.dismail.de
    target_port = 7822

  [[ChaosNet]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = True
    target_host = rns.c3.jitter.eu
    target_port = 4242

  [[interloper node]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = intr.cx
    target_port = 4242

  [[The Outpost]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = theoutpost.life
    target_port = 4242

  [[Beleth RNS Hub]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = rns.beleth.net
    target_port = 4242

  [[Rocket Tech Hub]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = reticulum.rocket-tech.net
    target_port = 443

  [[SparkN0de]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = aspark.uber.space
    target_port = 44860

  [[Tidudanka.com]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = reticulum.tidudanka.com
    target_port = 37500

  [[quad4net tcp]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = rns.quad4.io
    target_port = 4242

  [[nisa-node]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = nisa.cat
    target_port = 4242

  [[acehoss]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = rns.acehoss.net
    target_port = 4242

  [[RNS Testnet StoppedCold]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = rns.stoppedcold.com
    target_port = 4242

  [[RNS COMSEC-RD]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = 80.78.23.249
    target_port = 4242

  [[R-Net TCP]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = yes
    target_host = istanbul.reserve.network
    target_port = 9034

  [[RNS TCP Node Germany 001]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = true
    target_host = 202.61.243.41
    target_port = 4965

  [[RNS TCP Node Germany 002]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = true
    target_host = 193.26.158.230
    target_port = 4965

  [[Quortal TCP Node]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = true
    target_host = reticulum.qortal.link
    target_port = 4242

  [[mobilefabrik TCP]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = true
    target_host = phantom.mobilefabrik.com
    target_port = 4242

  [[g00n.cloud Hub]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    enabled = true
    target_host = dfw.us.g00n.cloud
    target_port = 6969

  [[RNS_Transport_US-East]]
    type = TCPClientInterface
    interface_enabled = true
    target_host = 45.77.109.86
    target_port = 4965

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