New node offline

[Nastea]

Guess I mess up my other post…so sorry. New type of forum for me.

Anyway had a new node brought online and after a day it still shows offline. Probably missed something. However DNS works, port forwarding shows open in the public IP, identity check from other posts shows a result of 2 and 3. So not sure…any suggestions?

[Alexey]

Hello @Nastea,
Welcome to the forum!
Please, start with this list:

My Node is OFFLINE for 2 hours

It should connect in seconds. There are a few things you should check. Start with checking the port. On https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/?port=28967 you can fill in the domain or IP you are using in the run command. Then check the port. If it’s closed, it could still be several things. Make sure the WAN IP you see in your router settings matches the IP shown on the above page. Make sure your port forward is set up correctly. That means no filter on incoming IPs, forwarding to th…

[Nastea]

Thanks as mentioned the port shows as open. Identify command you gave shows.

[Alexey]

Then, please, check your firewall. It should have an incoming rule to allow any traffic from the any source and TCP 28967 and your PC with docker as a destination.
And make sure, that your external address is resolved to the same public IP as on yougetsignal. For example, nslookup ddns.address 8.8.8.8