I installed Ropsten (revival) testnet on an Ubuntu server, Then I start my testnet node:
geth --testnet
I can connect to my node via
geth attach ipc:/home/myusername/.ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc
and I get this info from my node instance:
> admin.nodeInfo
{
enode: "enode://03aa54...0689be3@24.230.213.120:30303",
id: "03aa54b894aec...a49d8490689be3",
ip: "www.xxx.yyy.zzz",
listenAddr: "[::]:30303",
name: "Geth/v1.6.7-stable-ab5646c5/linux-amd64/go1.8.1",
ports: {
discovery: 30303,
listener: 30303
},
protocols: {
eth: {
difficulty: 1621387497788667,
genesis: "0x41941023680923e0fe4d74a34bdac8141f2540e3ae90623718e47d66d1ca4a2d",
head: "0x84e8e85cdd7a5fa79d26b9fa89cd850be23b13d2079208e052eceb06c436654b",
network: 3
}
}
}
But I cannot connect to the testnet node from my nodejs script:
Web3 = require("web3");
web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider("http://localhost:30303"));
console.log(web3.isConnected());
always return false ! Any advice ?