Run solana rpc node got error "connection timed out"

External question — Solana Stack Exchange Author: Jack Liu Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/questions/15872 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am trying to run a solana rpc node of mainnet. I followed the aiticle how-to-run-a-solana-rpc-node due to I did not find the way of how to run a rpc node on mainnet on the solana's official website. Here is my validatory.sh #!/bin/bash set -e set -u export RUST_LOG=error solana-validator \ --identity /var/solana/data/config/validator-keypair.json \ --known-validator 7Np41oeYqPefeNQEHSv1UDhYrehxin3NStELsSKCT4K2 \ --known-validator GdnSyH3YtwcxFvQrVVJMm1JhTS4QVX7MFsX56uJLUfiZ \ --known-validator DE1bawNcRJB9rVm3buyMVfr8mBEoyyu73NBovf2oXJsJ \ --known-validator CakcnaRDHka2gXyfbEd2d3xsvkJkqsLw2akB3zsN1D2S \ --only-known-rpc \ --full-rpc-api \ --no-voting \ --ledger /var/solana/data/ledger \ --accounts /var/solana/accounts \ --log /home/r630/solana-rpc.log \ --rpc-port 8899 \ --rpc-bind-address 127.0.0.1 \ --private-rpc \ --dynamic-port-range 8000-8020 \ --expected-genesis-hash 5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdpKuc147dw2N9d \ --entrypoint entrypoint.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint2.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint3.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint4.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint5.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --wal-recovery-mode skip_any_corrupted_record \ --init-complete-file /var/solana/data/init-completed \ --limit-ledger-size execute the script > ./validator.sh check the log file > tail -f solana-rpc.log get_cluster_shred_version failed: 103.97.176.73:8001, connection timed out get_cluster_shred_version failed: 184.173.136.86:8001, connection timed out get_cluster_shred_version failed: 209.95.56.60:8001, connection timed out get_cluster_shred_version failed: 67.228.235.91:8001, connection timed out env >solana --version solana-cli 1.18.21 (src:818807a5; feat:4215500110, client:SolanaLabs) >uname -a Linux r630-PowerEdge-R630 6.5.0-18-generic #18~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Feb 7 11:40:03 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I wonder how to solve this problem.

External answer — Solana Stack Exchange Author: Hawa Kallon Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/a/15964 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I think it would be worthwhile to check the documentations below https://docs.solanalabs.com/operations/guides/validator-start https://docs.solanalabs.com/operations/setup-an-rpc-node