Failed to connect to bootstrap peers

[amerfarooq]

I am following the instructions in the Running across the Internet section and trying to connect two nodes for collaborative training. One node is running inside WSL on Windows and the other node is running on an EC2 instance. Whenever I run the initial node where the DHT is created, whether on WSL or EC2, and try to connect the other node to it, I always get the same error: Daemon failed to start: 2023/01/20 13:11:28 failed to connect to bootstrap peers. I have also tried the use_ipfs settings but it also results in a similar error. I suspect it might have to do something with running the node in WSL but I am not entirely sure.

Would anyone have any suggestions on how I can go about fixing this?

[justheuristic]

Hi! Sorry, i've only just got around to this.
What you're saying looks like there's no open port between the two peers.
On EC2, there's a guide how to open ports that could allow external connections.

Hivemind needs that at least the bootstrap peers are publicly reachable (technically, at least one of them should be).