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I am trying to create a boot node for my private network, I followed a tutorial which led me to generating a boot.key and run

bootnode -nodekey boot.key -verbosity 9 --addr :30301 It is supposed to output enode url like this : 

INFO [02-07|22:44:09] UDP listener up 
self=enode://3ec4fef2d726c2c01f16f0a0030f15dd5a81e274067af2b2157cafbf76aa79fa9c0be52c6664e80cc5b08162ede53279bd70ee10d024fe86613b0b09e1106c40@[::]:30310

But what happened is that I don't get that and I only get something like this : INFO [12-05|11:53:34.678] New local node record seq=1 id=azeadad ip=<nil> udp=0 tcp =0

Am I doing something wrong ?

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It turns out something changed with the last versions of the bootnode tool, you need to run wit -v5 flag for ti to work like instructed in the tutorials.

I still don't get why it is like that, but running this did the trick and my boot node is working :

bootnode -nodekey boot.key -verbosity 9 --addr :30301 -v5

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  • I was experimenting the same problem yesterday. Thanks for the solution. Do you have some docs or references about this modification ? Need to rewrite a part of my private network's deployment scripts – M. Riggi Dec 6 '18 at 9:40
  • Not exactly, I just found the option from the help manual on terminal. But from the official Geth CLI docs I can see something similar : github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Command-Line-Options Checkout the networking options and bootnodesv5 – Kaki Master Of Time Dec 6 '18 at 9:52
  • is peer discovery still working for you ? – M. Riggi Dec 6 '18 at 11:53
  • @M.Riggi No, I have to add peers manually. apparently the V5 is something like a light server. – Kaki Master Of Time Dec 6 '18 at 12:11
  • Ok I found another solution to get enode with -writeaddress – M. Riggi Dec 6 '18 at 15:42

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