Fatal: Error starting protocol stack: listen tcp: lookup ”localhost”: no such host

Question

I'm trying to run a Node on a private blockchain using the following command:

geth --datadir data/privateBlockchain/ -networkid 1234567 -port 30306 -nodiscover -rpc -rpcapi “db,personal,eth,net,web3,debug” -rpccorsdomain ”*” --rpcaddr ”localhost” -rpcport 8545

I got it from this tutorial:

https://medium.com/coinmonks/ethereum-land-marketplace-dapp-tutorial-part-1-create-and-deploy-a-smart-contract-351bc0d62be2

but when I ran it the following message is shown on the screen:

Fatal: Error starting protocol stack: listen tcp: lookup ”localhost”: no such host

I've also tried with 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.

What can I do to fix this problem?

Answer 1

While I can't answer why you're getting this specific error, what I can tell you is that specifying --rcpaddr localhost is unnecessary as localhost is the default rpcaddr value.

If I were to take a swing at guessing why you're getting this error though, I would assume that you're quotes around localhost are smart quotes, and not the standard kind (they show up that way on this site, at least). If you really want to explicitly set the RPC bind address to localhost (explicit is better than implicit, to some) try removing the quotes!