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geth
Bumblebee
Bumblebee

Reputation: 553

geth --rinkeby can not find peers

I want to run a Rinkeby full node. That is my startup script for geth:

geth    --rinkeby \
        --cache=2048 \
        --http --http.port=8545 --http.addr=127.0.0.1 --http.api=eth,web3,net,personal --http.corsdomain "*" \
        --syncmode=fast

geth starts but obviously it cannot connect to any peers. I get the following debug output:

INFO [08-05|07:03:02.696] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=137 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:03:12.832] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=180 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:03:23.506] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=81  static=0
INFO [08-05|07:03:35.003] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=198 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:03:45.042] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=105 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:03:56.216] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=96  static=0
INFO [08-05|07:04:06.978] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=118 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:04:17.244] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=110 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:04:27.273] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=189 static=0
INFO [08-05|07:04:39.046] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=81  static=0

It is running already for more than 12 hours like this. I also tried to stop the firewall, but this doesn't change anything.

Here is output of geth version:

Geth
Version: 1.9.19-unstable
Git Commit: 8e7bee9b56763e94c06e597bf968838e7ea2d03b
Git Commit Date: 20200727
Architecture: amd64
Protocol Versions: [65 64 63]
Go Version: go1.13.14
Operating System: linux
GOPATH=
GOROOT=/usr/lib64/go/1.13

What can I do, that geth finds other peers?

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1299

Answers (2)

rachid chami
rachid chami

Reputation: 33

If you update to the latest stable version 1.10.x and still having the discovery issue. Try running the node using --v5disc option which enables the experimental RLPx V5 (Topic Discovery) mechanism.

Edit:

Also, not having the discovery port setup correctly 30303 can result in nodes not being able to find peers. Make sure, no more than one more process is trying to listen on that port.

Upvotes: 2

Pumpia
Pumpia

Reputation: 1

Well, your geth version is unstable. Try to install the latest stable version. This should solve the problem.

Upvotes: 0

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