Make sure to whitelist only your npub to be able  to write to your relays. It is in your Start9 config of your relay. Add your npub to citrine if you arw using that. 

 Thanks - yes, did this step! 

 Do you know if the latest StartOS allows the outside world to connect to services? Are they publicly accessible? 

 I think you can always connect externally through tor 

 If that's the case then this would work. Thanks. 

 Had a start9 running but stopped because at some point it just disconnected from the internet and i haven't found the time to debug it 😮‍💨 

 All services on StartOS have a Tor address.  IP/Port config is coming in v0.6.3 release in beta now.