[Ethereum] Geth not syncing on testnet

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I'm trying to run geth on a new mac and it gets stuck when trying to sync.
I'm running geth --testnet --syncmode "fast"

This is the console output:

INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Starting peer-to-peer node
instance=Geth/v1.7.3-stable/darwin-amd64/go1.9.2 INFO [01-06|11:33:20]
Allocated cache and file handles
database=/Users/pabloruiz55/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth/chaindata
cache=128 handles=1024 INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Writing custom genesis
block INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Initialised chain configuration
config="{ChainID: 3 Homestead: 0 DAO: DAOSupport: true EIP150: 0
EIP155: 10 EIP158: 10 Byzantium: 1700000 Engine: ethash}" INFO
[01-06|11:33:20] Disk storage enabled for ethash caches
dir=/Users/pabloruiz55/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth/ethash count=3
INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Disk storage enabled for ethash DAGs
dir=/Users/pabloruiz55/.ethash count=2
INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Initialising Ethereum protocol
versions="[63 62]" network=3 INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Loaded most recent
local header number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576 INFO
[01-06|11:33:20] Loaded most recent local full block number=0
hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576 INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Loaded most recent
local fast block number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576 INFO
[01-06|11:33:20] Regenerated local transaction journal
transactions=0 accounts=0 INFO [01-06|11:33:20] Starting P2P
networking INFO [01-06|11:33:23] UDP listener up
self=enode://cff9f6def208edea618095eeec2b2f96532188e248775447c14bcf092eb73f97ed27411f56b1737d3caf0815b677c1b47cc72dbb8c0ab7ef4d2f0192c56a23e6@190.55.195.86:30303
INFO [01-06|11:33:23] RLPx listener up
self=enode://cff9f6def208edea618095eeec2b2f96532188e248775447c14bcf092eb73f97ed27411f56b1737d3caf0815b677c1b47cc72dbb8c0ab7ef4d2f0192c56a23e6@190.55.195.86:30303
INFO [01-06|11:33:23] IPC endpoint opened:
/Users/pabloruiz55/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc

It always gets stuck after that last message.
Tried using –syncmode "light" or just geth –testnet, but it's the same.

Syncing mainnet DOES work.
Syncing Rinkeby DOES work.

Any ideas?

Best Answer

I found this node: enode://94c15d1b9e2fe7ce56e458b9a3b672ef11894ddedd0c6f247e0f1d3487f52b66208fb4aeb8179fce6e3a749ea93ed147c37976d67af557508d199d9594c35f09@192.81.208.223:30303 on this page:

https://github.com/ethereum/ropsten/issues/13

and it seemed to fix my issue.

bash$ geth --testnet --syncmode "fast" --rpc --rpcapi db,eth,net,web3,personal --cache=1024  --rpcport 8545 --rpcaddr 127.0.0.1 --rpccorsdomain "*" --bootnodes "enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303,enode://94c15d1b9e2fe7ce56e458b9a3b672ef11894ddedd0c6f247e0f1d3487f52b66208fb4aeb8179fce6e3a749ea93ed147c37976d67af557508d199d9594c35f09@192.81.208.223:30303" --verbosity=6
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