How to find out if your Urbit ship is directly or indirectly routing to another Urbit ship

published Apr 13, 2021 , last modified Apr 21, 2021

Direct routes go faster than indirect routes. Indirect routes can also be evidence of problems getting UPnP / NAT working correctly with your ship (when you run your ship behind a NAT firewall).

The command to use in the Urbit dojo is:

=/(ss .^(ship-state:ames ax+/=//=/peers/~zod) ?>(?=(%known -.ss) route.ss))

Replace ~zod with the actual ship name.

You'll see something like this as a response, if your ship is in fact directly linked to the other one (instead of being indirectly routed by a star):

[~ [direct=%.y lane=[%.n p=0x1453.6342.5dcf]]]

If your connection is indirect, you will see %.n instead (which means false in Hoon).

There are more tricks in this notebook: ~middev/the-forge/resource/publish/ship/~middev/arbor-press-3191

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