How can I get a of list live enodes and add them with addNode?

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• tgerring Member Posts: 28 ✭✭

  May 2015

  Nodes will need to advertise themselves out-of-band for you to learn about them. Otherwise, network discovery takes care of finding new peers from your current peers.

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• StephanTual London, EnglandMember, Moderator Posts: 1,282 mod

  June 2015

  @SDLerner: Such an out of band list exists (but is likely outdated) at https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/2188/cannot-connect-to-any-peers. Obviously adding them en-mass like this is dangerous - you can't tell if they are legit or not, and you should proceed with caution.

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• oliverkx Member Posts: 85 ✭

  June 2015

  is there a whitepaper on the peer discovery process somewhere? I have been stuck for the last 48 hours, not being able to reliably connect to any peers. And I have no idea how to analyze the log files...
  
  Thanks!

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• StephanTual London, EnglandMember, Moderator Posts: 1,282 mod

  June 2015

  @oliverkx https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/RLPx-----Node-Discovery-Protocol

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• oliverkx Member Posts: 85 ✭

  June 2015

  Thank you - this helps, although it is still a bit more high-level than I had hoped. It doesn't, for example, talk much about the strategies the Ethereum client uses in order to maintain a healthy list of peers after a certain amount of up-time - strategy that has come into question in various posts on this forum.

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