Having trouble getting nodes to connect?

Question

I have a couple nodes set up and running a chain; One of them went offline and when I attempt to reconnect it, I must have my daemon parameters wrong or something, because It continues to connect & disconnect & reconnect to the other nodes.. Not sure why this is happening? any suggestions? I can give any info you may need..

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Please provide details of where your nodes are hosted and the network between them.

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The nodes are hosted online; on Virtual Private Servers. (Cloud Instances)

The problem Node is at the office, I have the router configured correctly as it has been working fine the past couple days, I came into the office one morning to see the power had been disrupted, when I attempted to reconnect NODE-3 to the network, it would connect and then disconnect and repeat that process..

I issued a -reindex and it did this^ the entire time it updated the chain, just to never fully sync. Node-3 is a few blocks behind Node-1 & 2 and won't even show me any sort of response or connection to them now.

I have created a pastebin with some more information on this.
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Your support is appreciated & thank you for such a quick response!

Answer 1

Please start by upgrading all the nodes to the version 1.0 release, because there was an issue in previous versions where nodes that were disconnected for a long time on a chain with no new activity might not catch up. Then please let us know if the problem persists.

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Thanks you very much, & after I upgraded all the nodes to 1.0-release I realized my wallet was locked on the problem node, as soon as I unlocked the wallet, the connection has been solid ever since. I can't believe I overlooked that. Appreciate the quick support! Great product!!

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Ah yes, that would explain it - the private key in the wallet is required for the node to identify itself to other nodes in a permissioned network.