Someguy Environment Variables

May 26, 2026 · View on GitHub

The environment variables below override someguy's built-in defaults.

Configuration

SOMEGUY_LISTEN_ADDRESS

The address to listen on.

Default: 127.0.0.1:8190

SOMEGUY_DHT

Controls DHT client mode: standard, accelerated, disabled

Default: accelerated

SOMEGUY_CACHED_ADDR_BOOK

Enables the cached address book. When disabled, Someguy omits cached addresses from FindProviders results for peers lacking multiaddrs.

Default: true

SOMEGUY_CACHED_ADDR_BOOK_RECENT_TTL

TTL for recently connected peers' multiaddrs in the cached address book. Applies only when SOMEGUY_CACHED_ADDR_BOOK is enabled.

Default: 48h

SOMEGUY_CACHED_ADDR_BOOK_ACTIVE_PROBING

Enables active probing of cached peers to keep their multiaddrs up to date. Applies only when SOMEGUY_CACHED_ADDR_BOOK is enabled.

Default: true

SOMEGUY_RECORDS_LIMIT

Maximum providers or peers returned per Accept: application/json request. HTTP Routing v1 §4.1.5 recommends 100. Set to 0 to disable the cap.

Default: 100

SOMEGUY_STREAMING_RECORDS_LIMIT

Maximum providers or peers returned per Accept: application/x-ndjson request. Sits above SOMEGUY_RECORDS_LIMIT so streaming returns more results. Set to 0 to disable the cap.

Default: 1000

SOMEGUY_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS

Comma-separated list of Delegated Routing V1 endpoints for provider lookups.

Supports two URL formats:

  • Base URL without path: https://example.com
  • Full URL with path: https://example.com/routing/v1/providers

The auto placeholder (default) resolves to endpoints from the network configuration at SOMEGUY_AUTOCONF_URL.

Default: auto

SOMEGUY_PEER_ENDPOINTS

Comma-separated list of Delegated Routing V1 endpoints for peer routing.

URL formats: same as SOMEGUY_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS (use /routing/v1/peers path).

Default: auto

SOMEGUY_IPNS_ENDPOINTS

Comma-separated list of Delegated Routing V1 endpoints for IPNS records.

URL formats: same as SOMEGUY_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS (use /routing/v1/ipns path).

Default: auto

SOMEGUY_AUTOCONF

Enables automatic configuration (autoconf) of delegated routing endpoints and bootstrap peers.

When enabled, Someguy replaces the auto placeholder in endpoint configuration with network-recommended values fetched from the autoconf URL.

Default: true

SOMEGUY_AUTOCONF_URL

URL to fetch autoconf data from. Defaults to the service that provides configuration for IPFS Mainnet.

Default: https://conf.ipfs-mainnet.org/autoconf.json

SOMEGUY_AUTOCONF_REFRESH

How often to refresh the autoconf data. The configuration is cached and updated at this interval.

Default: 24h

SOMEGUY_HTTP_BLOCK_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS

Comma-separated list of HTTP trustless gateways that Someguy probes to synthesize provider records.

When a configured gateway responds with HTTP 200 to a HEAD /ipfs/{cid}?format=raw request, FindProviders returns a provider record that contains the matching PeerID from SOMEGUY_HTTP_BLOCK_PROVIDER_PEERIDS and the gateway endpoint as a multiaddr with the /tls/http suffix.

Important

When creating a synthetic /routing/v1 for your gateway, and not a general-purpose routing endpoint, set SOMEGUY_DHT=disabled and SOMEGUY_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS="" to disable default DHT and HTTP routers and exclusively use the explicitly defined SOMEGUY_HTTP_BLOCK_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS.

Default: none

SOMEGUY_HTTP_BLOCK_PROVIDER_PEERIDS

Comma-separated list of multibase-encoded peerIDs that Someguy embeds in synthetic provider records for the HTTP endpoints in SOMEGUY_HTTP_BLOCK_PROVIDER_ENDPOINTS. The order of PeerIDs must match the order of endpoints.

If you configure provider endpoints without PeerIDs, Someguy generates synthetic PeerIDs automatically, deterministically derived from SHA-256 hashes of the endpoint URLs. These PeerIDs exist only for routing-system compatibility; HTTP trustless gateways never use them for cryptographic operations or peer authentication.

Default: none

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_LISTEN_ADDRS

Comma-separated libp2p listen multiaddresses. Someguy binds port 4004 on IPv4 and IPv6 across libp2p's default transports. To see the exact defaults built into this release, run someguy start --help.

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_CONNMGR_LOW

Minimum number of libp2p connections to keep.

Default: 100

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_CONNMGR_HIGH

Maximum number of libp2p connections to keep.

Default: 3000

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_CONNMGR_GRACE_PERIOD

Minimum libp2p connection TTL.

Default: 1m

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_MAX_MEMORY

Maximum memory to use for libp2p.

Default: 0 (85% of the system's available RAM)

SOMEGUY_LIBP2P_MAX_FD

Maximum number of file descriptors used by libp2p node.

Default: 0 (50% of the process' limit)

Logging

GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL

Sets the log level globally or per subsystem. Levels:

  • debug
  • info
  • warn
  • error
  • dpanic
  • panic
  • fatal

Specify per-subsystem levels as subsystem=level. Combine a global level with any number of per-subsystem levels by separating them with commas.

Default: error

Example:

GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL="error,someguy=debug" someguy

GOLOG_LOG_FMT

Sets the log message format. Supported values:

  • color: human-readable, colorized (ANSI) output
  • nocolor: human-readable, plain-text output
  • json: structured JSON

For example, to log structured JSON (for easier parsing):

export GOLOG_LOG_FMT="json"

The logging format defaults to color when the output is a terminal, and nocolor otherwise.

GOLOG_FILE

Writes logs to the given file. Defaults to stderr.

GOLOG_TRACING_FILE

Writes tracing events to the given file. Tracing is disabled by default.

Warning: tracing affects performance.

Tracing

See tracing.md.

SOMEGUY_TRACING_AUTH

Setting a non-empty value enables on-demand per-request tracing.

To honor a Traceparent or Tracestate header, Someguy requires the request to carry an Authorization header whose value matches SOMEGUY_TRACING_AUTH.

SOMEGUY_SAMPLING_FRACTION

Fraction of routing requests to sample (0 to 1). Applied independently of Traceparent-based sampling.

Default: 0