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My Geth server in light mode was running without any issue up to yesterday. But after that, I only receive these messages continuously! 

INFO [04-19|12:59:22.181] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=9  static=29
INFO [04-19|12:59:35.670] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=3  static=29
INFO [04-19|12:59:46.432] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=17 static=29
INFO [04-19|12:59:57.181] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=9  static=29
INFO [04-19|13:00:10.671] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=3  static=29
INFO [04-19|13:00:21.408] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=17 static=29
INFO [04-19|13:00:32.182] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=9  static=29
INFO [04-19|13:00:45.671] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=3  static=29
INFO [04-19|13:00:56.416] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=17 static=29
INFO [04-19|13:01:07.182] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=9  static=29
INFO [04-19|13:01:20.672] Looking for peers                        peercount=0 tried=3  static=29

And this does not finish!

May you help me to solve this issue please?

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  • Are you behind a NAT (router)? Do you port forward? What system do you run this on (Windows / Linux / Mac)? How do you start the geth client?
    – Daniel Luca CleanUnicorn
    Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 9:06
  • I'm using a Linux server (Ubuntu 18.04). This was my initial code: geth --syncmode light --rpc --rpcport 8545 --rpcapi personal,eth,web3,txpool
    – Mohammad Saberi
    Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 9:08
  • Are you behind a NAT (router)?
    – Daniel Luca CleanUnicorn
    Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 9:25
  • @Daniel, No I am not
    – Mohammad Saberi
    Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 11:19
  • Super late here, but does the tried=n reflect that those peers refused to serve you as a light client? "This is currently an open issue within the Ethereum community - how do we incentivize people to run full nodes which serve light clients?" ethereum.org/en/developers/tutorials/run-light-node-geth
    – samlaf
    Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 19:01

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It's Geth's peer discovery mechanism. You can use --nodiscover to disable it, which prevents your node from finding peers to connect, but it doesn't prevent other node in the network to connect to your node.

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