I am trying to deploy an small private Ethereum network using geth. I have a server running geth configured as a miner in my local network. In the other side I have a droplet in DigitalOcean that I want to use as a bootnode to connect future nodes to my network.
I have executed the following commands in my DigitalOcean Droplet:
bootnode --genkey=boot.key
bootnode --nodekey=boot.key --addr:$(MY_PUBLICIP):30301
And I get the following output from the command instead of my public key that I need to introduce as my enode reference in the future nodes:
INFO [10-29|18:13:32.851] New local node record seq=1 id=785b198c28c625f8 ip=<nil> udp=0 tcp=0
Could please somebody tell how to interpret the output from the bootnode command?
I introduced a netstat command in order to find out whether or not the program is opening a port.
ether@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-ams3-01:~$ netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 localhost:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:ssh 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN
udp 6912 0 localhost:domain 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2g:30301 0.0.0.0:*
raw6 0 0 [::]:ipv6-icmp [::]:* 7
raw6 0 0 [::]:ipv6-icmp [::]:* 7
I'm using a standard Ubuntu 18.04 configuration of the basic droplet DigitalOcean, I would like to know if I should configure something else besides the usual compilation of the geth code in order to make a bootnode work.
Thanks any help is welcomed.
