<p>You don't really provide anything like enough information, so what follows is inevitably guesswork.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong><code>bind returned error Cannot assign requested address</code></strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Your PC no longer has the specified address</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>I did a restart after trying to get some docker files,</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>DHCP allocated a new IP-address?</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>IPV6 not enabled in Docker</p>
<hr />
<p>Possible fixes</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/55844788/477035">https://stackoverflow.com/q/55844788/477035</a></li>
<li>alter bitcoin.conf to bind to any IPV4 address allocated to any active network interface</li>
<li>DHCP reservation</li>
<li>statically allocated IP-address</li>
</ul>

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<p>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</p>

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

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-12-31)

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

**Tags:** bitcoind, bitcoin.conf


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-01-01. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

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


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