status-go/BOOTNODE.md

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Description

A "Bootnode" is a match-maker for all kinds of nodes. For example our Mailserver. It helps a new node find other nodes it can communicate with. It bootstraps connections between them.

A Bootstrap node is a very static thing and should not change its IP. Their addresses are either hardcoded into the node binary or provided via flags or config files on process start.

Service Ports

Setup methods

This document describes the two alternative ways to start a Status Bootnode:

Docker Compose

The simplest way is to just use:

make run-bootnode-docker

This will generate the necessary config, compose and then start the container.

For more details read the README.

Systemd Service

The other way is to run the bootnode under systemd:

make run-bootnode-systemd

This will generate the necessary config, define and then start a user service. Use sudo if you want it to be a system service.

For more details read the README.