Increase global peer coverage

[TangMonk]

It's hard to looking peers:

base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:56:33.173] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=78  static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:56:53.511] Looking for peers                        peercount=1 tried=79  static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:03.647] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=148 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:13.685] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=114 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:23.717] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=138 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:33.748] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=92  static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:43.799] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=175 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:57:53.872] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=139 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:04.108] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=105 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:14.178] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=117 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:24.263] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=138 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:34.396] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=115 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:44.417] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=104 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:58:54.432] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=89  static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:59:04.459] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=102 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:59:14.540] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=145 static=0
base-geth-1  | INFO [03-25|07:59:24.541] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=72  static=0

Very long time, still 0 peer

[mariokami]

I'm experiencing the same issue. I haven't dug into the architecture of the project (apologies) but it seems that 9222 tcp/udp are the discovery ports for p2p.

I've opened these up on the node but I'm still experiencing the same issue as @TangMonk - long periods of 0 peers.

[roberto-bayardo]

Thanks, will take a look. We set up some default public peers but perhaps they don't have enough capacity.

As for the question in the title of this issue, yes we have the static peers that should be provided by the bootnodes in the default config here. This is a recent update, so make sure your config has this too:

https://github.com/base-org/node/blob/18a9591d2b06ae90885d450e824c75ccd6d8582c/.env.mainnet#L3

[wbnns]

@TangMonk @mariokami Can you all also please make sure TCP / UDP for P2P is forwarded for 30303 and let us know the results?

[TangMonk]

@TangMonk* @mariokami* Can you all also please make sure TCP / UDP for P2P is forwarded for 30303 and let us know the results?

$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                         COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                 PORTS                                                                                                                                                                                                                   NAMES
2c85eb19d42b   base-node                     "bash ./op-node-entr…"   4 hours ago         Up 4 hours             0.0.0.0:6060->6060/tcp, :::6060->6060/tcp, 0.0.0.0:7300->7300/tcp, :::7300->7300/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9222->9222/tcp, :::9222->9222/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9222->9222/udp, :::9222->9222/udp, 0.0.0.0:7545->8545/tcp, :::7545->8545/tcp   base-node-1
add7fe3cae97   base-geth                     "bash ./geth-entrypo…"   4 hours ago         Up About a minute      0.0.0.0:8545-8546->8545-8546/tcp, :::8545-8546->8545-8546/tcp, 0.0.0.0:30303->30303/tcp, :::30303->30303/tcp, 0.0.0.0:30303->30303/udp, :::30303->30303/udp, 0.0.0.0:7301->6060/tcp, :::7301->6060/tcp                  base-geth-1

and no firewall enabled on my machine

[TangMonk]

Thanks, will take a look. We set up some default public peers but perhaps they don't have enough capacity.

As for the question in the title of this issue, yes we have the static peers that should be provided by the bootnodes in the default config here. This is a recent update, so make sure your config has this too:

https://github.com/base-org/node/blob/18a9591d2b06ae90885d450e824c75ccd6d8582c/.env.mainnet#L3

All above of your provided static peers node are from USA. Not convenient for people from other areas

Could u please add some Asian static peers node, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan is fine. I am living in China, Syncing node is so sloooow.

[wbnns]

Thanks for the feedback; leaving this issue open to track the need for increasing global peer coverage to facilitate easier discovery.

[mariokami]

@wbnns thanks for the response - 30303 is forwarded on this box, and I'll keep you posted with updates. I wasn't thinking about 30303 because it says in the docker-compose.yml file :

      - 30403:30303     # P2P TCP (currently unused)
      - 30403:30303/udp # P2P UDP (currently unused)

@TangMonk the bootnodes are just for discovery (ie: to provide addresses for other nodes via Kademlia DHT) so their geographic location shouldn't make too much of a difference. I'd be interested if there was something to suggest otherwise.

[rcastellaj]

Is it 30303 (conflicting with Ethereum) or is it 30301 ? The static bootnodes list has 30301 for all their ports...

[parsdextra]

Are the boot nodes still overloaded? Same issue here with no connected nodes, no firewall.

[rcastellaj]

Took about 1 hour for my node to find one peer, after that the whole chain sync took 1 hour as my L1 beacon and exec are local to the infrastructure.

To be fair it kind of feels like you dont need more than 1 peer to start syncing. Would it be too hard to provide a reliable list of 10 or so static nodes?

[lmcapp]

My server is in Germany, and all provided static nodes cannot be pinged. Looking for a peer for more than a day and the result is still 0.