Cannot sync from genesis (or snapshot) with defunct bootnodes

[barryz]

Hi dev team, we're from the DeBank and Rabby Wallet team. We're spinning up a Tomo full-node on Mainnet. We've done all the steps by following the official doc. We've set the env while starting the node with binary, the node isn't make a connection with bootnode in the doc and prints debug logs as follows:

Could you help us connect with the active mainnet bootnodes, and proceed further with the setup and syncing process?

We were kindly waiting for the reply asap.

Thanks.

[ttibord]

@barryz have you had any luck with this in the meantime?

We're also trying to sync from latest (July) archive snapshot, and seeing similar behavior, although not the exact same error messages - this is looping:

node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Starting bonding ping/pong               id=c8f2f0643527d4ef known=false failcount=9  age=479516h16m20.301921694s
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Starting bonding ping/pong               id=fd3da177f9492a39 known=false failcount=9  age=479516h16m20.301966669s
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Starting bonding ping/pong               id=97f0ca95a653e3c4 known=false failcount=10 age=479516h16m20.301971588s
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Starting bonding ping/pong               id=b72927f349f3a27b known=false failcount=9  age=479516h16m20.302024748s
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] >> PING TOMO/v4                          addr=104.248.98.60:30301   err=nil
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] >> PING TOMO/v4                          addr=3.212.20.0:30301      err=nil
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] >> PING TOMO/v4                          addr=188.166.207.189:30301 err=nil
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] >> PING TOMO/v4                          addr=3.212.20.0:30303      err=nil
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Dial task done                           task="discovery lookup"
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] Skipping dial candidate                  id=c8f2f0643527d4ef addr=104.248.98.60:30301   err="recently dialed"
node-1  | TRACE[09-13|20:16:20] New dial task                            task="discovery lookup"
node-1  | DEBUG[09-13|20:16:23] Recalculated downloader QoS values       rtt=5s confidence=1.000 ttl=5s

On verbosity 3, node just logs:

node-1  | INFO [09-12|20:41:59] HTTP endpoint opened                     url=http://0.0.0.0:8545      cors=* vhosts=*
node-1  | INFO [09-12|20:41:59] WebSocket endpoint opened                url=ws://[::]:8546
node-1  | INFO [09-12|20:42:00] Unlocked account                         address=0x7E43864BEC15bAbc5D9c25918aD241dddD46A695
node-1  | INFO [09-12|20:42:00] Etherbase automatically configured       address=0x7E43864BEC15bAbc5D9c25918aD241dddD46A695
node-1  | INFO [09-12|21:41:57] Regenerated local transaction journal    transactions=0 accounts=0
node-1  | INFO [09-12|22:41:57] Regenerated local transaction journal    transactions=0 accounts=0
node-1  | INFO [09-12|23:41:57] Regenerated local transaction journal    transactions=0 accounts=0
...

Using bootnodes from mainnet network docs:

enode://fd3da177f9492a39d1e7ce036b05745512894df251399cb3ec565081cb8c6dfa1092af8fac27991e66b6af47e9cb42e02420cc89f8549de0ce513ee25ebffc3a@3.212.20.0:30303
enode://97f0ca95a653e3c44d5df2674e19e9324ea4bf4d47a46b1d8560f3ed4ea328f725acec3fcfcb37eb11706cf07da669e9688b091f1543f89b2425700a68bc8876@3.212.20.0:30301
enode://b72927f349f3a27b789d0ca615ffe3526f361665b496c80e7cc19dace78bd94785fdadc270054ab727dbb172d9e3113694600dd31b2558dd77ad85a869032dea@188.166.207.189:30301
enode://c8f2f0643527d4efffb8cb10ef9b6da4310c5ac9f2e988a7f85363e81d42f1793f64a9aa127dbaff56b1e8011f90fe9ff57fa02a36f73220da5ff81d8b8df351@104.248.98.60:30301

[hanker0x]

This issue had been addressed. If you are still encountered the issue. Please refer to this guideline here: https://docs.viction.xyz/how-to/how-to-troubleshoot-when-the-node-is-up-but-couldnt-begin-to-sync-block

[ttibord]

Thanks, @hanker0x, we synced archive node successfully. Here's a minimal working docker compose (update image before 15th Oct), for anyone else finding this:

services:
  node:
    image: tomochain/node:stable
    environment:
      IDENTITY: my_archive_node
      BOOTNODES: enode://fd3da177f9492a39d1e7ce036b05745512894df251399cb3ec565081cb8c6dfa1092af8fac27991e66b6af47e9cb42e02420cc89f8549de0ce513ee25ebffc3a@3.212.20.0:30303,enode://97f0ca95a653e3c44d5df2674e19e9324ea4bf4d47a46b1d8560f3ed4ea328f725acec3fcfcb37eb11706cf07da669e9688b091f1543f89b2425700a68bc8876@3.212.20.0:30301,enode://b72927f349f3a27b789d0ca615ffe3526f361665b496c80e7cc19dace78bd94785fdadc270054ab727dbb172d9e3113694600dd31b2558dd77ad85a869032dea@188.166.207.189:30301,enode://c8f2f0643527d4efffb8cb10ef9b6da4310c5ac9f2e988a7f85363e81d42f1793f64a9aa127dbaff56b1e8011f90fe9ff57fa02a36f73220da5ff81d8b8df351@104.248.98.60:30301
    volumes:
      - /viction/data:/tomochain/data
    ports:
      - "14545:8545"
      - "30303:30303"
      - "30303:30303/udp"
    command: [
      "--gcmode=archive",
      "--store-reward",
      "--rpcapi=db,eth,net,web3,debug,posv"
      ]

And here's the mounted DB directory structure, after downloading official snapshots:

/viction/data
├── tomo
│   ├── chaindata
│   ├── nodes   # node creates
│   └── rewards # node creates
└── tomox