# Zebra-zaino-zallet - retrieve block from node **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Support\ **Created:** [September 5, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zebra-zaino-zallet-retrieve-block-from-node/52087 "2025-09-05T11:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kworks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c67d28/32.png) [@kworks](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/kworks)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zebra-zaino-zallet-retrieve-block-from-node/52087/1 "2025-09-05T11:17:37Z")
Zaino Build Info: Version: 0.1.2 Network: Mainnet Zebra Build: v2.5.0 Zebra Subversion: /Zebra:2.5.0/ 2025-09-05T07:42:57.584691Z INFO zaino\_state::local\_cache: Launching Local Block Cache.. 2025-09-05T07:42:57.584696Z INFO zaino\_state::local\_cache::non\_finalised\_state: Launching Non-Finalised State.. 2025-09-05T07:42:57.647254Z INFO zaino\_state::chain\_index::mempool: Launching Mempool.. got txvalue got txvalue got txvalue got txvalue 2025-09-05T07:42:57.748585Z INFO zallet::components::json\_rpc: Spawning RPC server 2025-09-05T07:42:57.748620Z INFO zallet::components::json\_rpc: Trying to open RPC endpoint at 127.0.0.1:8234… 2025-09-05T07:42:57.748694Z INFO zallet::components::json\_rpc::server: Opened RPC endpoint at 127.0.0.1:8234 got txvalue got txvalue 2025-09-05T07:42:57.751754Z INFO initialize: zallet::components::sync: Initializing wallet for syncing 2025-09-05T07:42:57.755814Z INFO initialize: zallet::components::sync::steps: Sapling tree has 1126 subtrees 2025-09-05T07:42:57.797410Z INFO initialize: zallet::components::sync::steps: Orchard tree has 750 subtrees **Failed to synchronize zallet: Fetch(TonicStatusError(Status { code: Unknown, message: “Error: Failed to retrieve block from node. Server Error: Custom error: unexpected error response from server: RPC Error (code: -5): block height not in best chain”, source: None }))** Trying to connect zallet to zaino + zebra. I believe its a basic config issue in the zallet config file? Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![kworks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c67d28/32.png) [@kworks](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/kworks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zebra-zaino-zallet-retrieve-block-from-node/52087/2 "2025-09-11T09:52:48Z")
Basic Start: z3 2025-09-11T08:12:16.474311Z INFO zaino\_state::local\_cache::non\_finalised\_state: Block at height [3060974] with hash [000000000050a2ad63e413adfff0b2b7f11ae88f254a5a7557ff5e1177f00bca] successfully committed to non-finalised state. 2025-09-11T08:12:16.483226Z INFO steady\_state: zallet::components::sync: New chain tip: 3060974 000000000050a2ad63e413adfff0b2b7f11ae88f254a5a7557ff5e1177f00bca 2025-09-11T08:12:16.483256Z INFO steady\_state: zallet::components::sync::steps: Fetching block 000000000050a2ad63e413adfff0b2b7f11ae88f254a5a7557ff5e1177f00bca 2025-09-11T08:12:16.490131Z INFO poll\_transparent: zallet::components::sync: Fetching mined UTXOs 2025-09-11T08:12:16.490679Z INFO steady\_state: zallet::components::sync: Scanning ChainTip(3060974..3060975) 2025-09-11T08:12:16.515583Z INFO steady\_state: zallet::components::sync: Reached chain tip, streaming mempool ### zallet3.toml = zallet configuration file [builder] [builder.limits] [consensus] #Network type. network = “main” [database] [external] [features] as\_of\_version = “0.0.0” [features.deprecated] [features.experimental] [indexer] validator\_address = “127.0.0.1:8232” #Enable validator RPC cookie authentication. validator\_cookie\_auth = true #Path to the validator cookie file. validator\_cookie\_path = “/home/computer/.cache/zebra/.cookie” #Full node / validator Username. #validator\_user = “” #Full node / validator Password. #validator\_password = “” db\_path = “/home/computer/zainodb” [keystore] [note\_management] [rpc] bind = [“127.0.0.1:8237”] ###Steps Taken ###updated zainod cd zaino git branch git pull origin dev cargo build --release export PATH=“$PATH:/home/computer/zaino/target/release” sudo reboot ## start zebra - fully sync ## start zaino - fully sync ##update zallet ## move into zallet datadir cd /home/computer/.zallet ## clear old attempted files sudo rm encryption-identity.txt sudo rm .lock sudo rm wallet.db ## pwd /home/computer/.zallet rage-keygen -o encryption-identity.txt rage -p -o encryption-identity.txt \<(rage-keygen) zallet -d /home/computer/.zallet init-wallet-encryption zallet generate-mnemonic ## start zallet zallet -d /home/computer/.zallet -c zallet3.toml start Hope it helps! ---
**Author:** ![dismad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/dismad/32/18432_2.png) [@dismad](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/dismad)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zebra-zaino-zallet-retrieve-block-from-node/52087/3 "2025-09-11T17:03:31Z")
Once zainod is synced you don’t need it running. Zallet will start it for you. Once zallet is running you can use curl to access the rpc server, but this is easier: `cargo build -r --features rpc-cli` then `./target/release/zallet rpc help` will display rpc’s and you can call them with `./zallet rpc ` ![Screenshot_2025-09-11_10-03-11](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/0/7/0704f37455542e6ee61fecff861843830aa5648a.png) ![Screenshot_2025-09-11_10-04-50](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/b/d/bdd5f206b5b12a7c797fafc61956881d8bcdee14.png)