Which IPFS gateway is using an .eth domain purchased at myetherwallet.com?

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I bought the rocinha eth domain in myetherwallet, and I set the IPFS hash to a content I added in Infura.

Visiting the URL http://rocinha.eth.link/ on Google Chrome, it works as expected.

However, how can I know which IPFS gateway is it using (ipfs io, cloudflare-ipfs com, or other)?

and how can I change the IPFS gateway used?

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Interesting question!

I did some searching and i think i found the answer you’re looking for.
Shall i give you a “let me google that for you” link? :wink:

Nah :stuck_out_tongue:

Have a look at this post where they introduce EthDNS: IPFS + ENS Everywhere: Introducing EthDNS | by Arkadiy Kukarkin | Medium

Then specifically this part:

What makes this different from proxy service approaches to the same problem is that the name and content layers are clearly separated, yet coordinated: the name and CID lookup happens at the DNS level, the IPFS content is served through a regular gateway, but both work seamlessly together from the user perspective.

(N.B.: If you don’t wish that your domain be served via the default EthDNS gateway, you can easily specify one of your choice via the A record in ENS —though be aware, they must be running recent go-ipfs)

I read this as them having an IPFS gateway, all *.eth.link domains are routed via that unless you provide your own A record to set a different gateway. I don’t know what you need to provide in that record. DnsLink doesn’t use an A record : DNSLink Standard

If you find out, please do share here for others when they find this post and are in the same situation.

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Thanks @markg85.

I still didn’t get which is the “default EthDNS gateway”?

here there is a list of gateways, such as ipfs.infura.io.
https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/

which is the “default EthDNS gateway”?

I’ll follow the doc you mention to try chaning the gateway, and explain it here.

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Have you thought that servers behind “eth.link” itself act as an IPFS gateway?

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Have you thought that servers behind “eth.link” itself act as an IPFS gateway?

that’s a possible answer.
Is it the right one?

My test website http://rocinha.eth.link/ was down for four hours because of a “HTTP 502 Bad Gateway” error.

I need to understand whether EthLink is reliable or not to deploy a production website there. Or how to make it reliable. Or if it was a configuration problem of mine.

Unfortunately I didn’t find a way to contact them: https://eth.link/

Do you know how to contact them?

$ curl -v "http://rocinha.eth.link/"
* Trying 35.241.8.114...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to rocinha.eth.link (35.241.8.114) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: rocinha.eth.link
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
> Accept: */*
> Referer: 
> 
< HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
< Content-Length: 332
< Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:09:42 GMT
< 
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>502 Server Error</title>
</head>
<body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff>
<h1>Error: Server Error</h1>
<h2>The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.<p>Please try again in 30 seconds.</h2>
<h2></h2>
</body></html>
* Connection #0 to host rocinha.eth.link left intact
* Closing connection 0

Cheers,
David

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They seem to use their own gateway.

and how can I change the IPFS gateway used?

I think hosting your own EthDNS service, unless they provide a way to customize how the A record is resolved.

Unfortunately I didn’t find a way to contact them: https://eth.link/

Have you tried asking in https://discuss.ens.domains/ ?