My bitcoin node is down again, not binding to my home ip:8333

Question

I am getting the following error; [net:error] Unable to bind to xxx.xx.147.xxx:8333 on this computer (bind returned error Cannot assign requested address (99)). I did a restart after trying to get some docker files, don't know if that caused, but I cant figure out how to fix it

Answer 1

You don't really provide anything like enough information, so what follows is inevitably guesswork.

bind returned error Cannot assign requested address

Your PC no longer has the specified address

I did a restart after trying to get some docker files,

DHCP allocated a new IP-address?

or

IPV6 not enabled in Docker

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Possible fixes

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/55844788/477035
• alter bitcoin.conf to bind to any IPV4 address allocated to any active network interface
• DHCP reservation
• statically allocated IP-address