# Validator Node - Australia

**URL:** <https://forum.celo.org/t/validator-node-australia/49>\
**Category:** Validators\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/validator-node-australia/49 "2019-07-17T18:50:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pkrasam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/pkrasam/32/22_2.png) [@pkrasam](https://forum.celo.org/u/pkrasam)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/validator-node-australia/49/1 "2019-07-17T18:50:13Z")

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Managed to get a `celo Validator Node` up and running.

 ![celo_Validator_Node_AU](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/celo/original/1X/3c1339c0c9b2b80ebb52a0a7099247575255af90.png)

But running into errors when [Running for Election](https://docs.celo.org/getting-started/running-a-validator)

```auto
$ celocli validator:register --id <VALIDATOR_ID_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --name <VALIDATOR_NAME_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --url <VALIDATOR_URL_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --from $CELO_VALIDATOR_ADDRESS --noticePeriod 5184000 --publicKey 0x`openssl rand -hex 64` 

```

```auto
Sending Transaction: registerValidator... !
Error: Returned error: gas required exceeds allowance or always failing transaction
    at Object.ErrorResponse (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js:29:16)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-core-requestmanager/src/index.js:140:36
    at callbackDecorator (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/lib/utils/eth-debug-provider.js:17:13)
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-providers-http/src/index.js:96:13)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request-event-target.js:34:22)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:208:14)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:318:14)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:289:61)

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**Author:** ![asaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@asaj](https://forum.celo.org/u/asaj)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/validator-node-australia/49/2 "2019-07-17T19:59:58Z")

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Copied from [https://github.com/celo-org/celo-monorepo/issues/44](https://github.com/celo-org/celo-monorepo/issues/44)

Thanks for raising this issue!

I’m assuming that you were able to execute all previous steps, including registering your bonded deposits accounts, making bonded deposits, and registering your validator group?

Did you substitute other values for `id` , `name` , and `url` ?