Gaiad Start Error In Peers & RPCs connections

[samuelarogbonlo]

I am attempting to join the mainnet and cosmos node follow g the steps in the docs here. However, I used some of the persistent peers and RPC endpoints here, but I still have connection issues when I run gaiad start .

Some of the log errors I have are

1:24PM ERR Stopping peer for error err=EOF module=p2p peer="Peer{MConn{47.147.226.147:26656} 87ccc1dcc0b846fc1623ab9a5ab55682e8e2ad2e out}"
1:24PM INF service stop impl="Peer{MConn{47.147.226.147:26656} 87ccc1dcc0b846fc1623ab9a5ab55682e8e2ad2e out}" module=p2p msg="Stopping Peer service" peer=87ccc1dcc0b846fc1623ab9a5ab55682e8e2ad2e@47.147.226.147:26656
1:24PM INF Error reconnecting to peer. Trying again addr=b0e746acb6fbed7a0311fe21cfb2ee94581ca3bc@51.79.21.187:26656 err="auth failure: conn.ID (71b7866fe4b2db2a41539c79591f5071b5534064) dialed ID (b0e746acb6fbed7a0311fe21cfb2ee94581ca3bc) mismatch" module=p2p tries=13
1:24PM INF Error reconnecting to peer. Trying again addr=28d36c3d45f0208528de3c38f2934ae241bd23e7@116.202.140.75:26656 err="dial tcp 116.202.140.75:26656: connect: connection refused" module=p2p tries=13

I also get the following sometimes

2:04PM INF Saving AddrBook to file book=/Users/samuel/.gaia/config/addrbook.json module=p2p size=1078
2:04PM INF Ensure peers module=pex numDialing=0 numInPeers=0 numOutPeers=10 numToDial=0
2:05PM INF Connection is closed @ recvRoutine (likely by the other side) conn=MConn{65.109.82.144:28656} module=p2p peer=35cfaafed2758c6eb3a1a418a6e2111e4fec8668@65.109.82.144:28656
2:05PM INF service stop impl=MConn{65.109.82.144:28656} module=p2p msg="Stopping MConnection service" peer=35cfaafed2758c6eb3a1a418a6e2111e4fec8668@65.109.82.144:28656
2:05PM ERR Stopping peer for error err=EOF module=p2p peer="Peer{MConn{65.109.82.144:28656} 35cfaafed2758c6eb3a1a418a6e2111e4fec8668 out}"

I suspect, I might need a more authentic RPC endpoint and persistent peers but could you help in giving more detail on what might be required for this ?