diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b8e9df..1911569 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,6 +59,6 @@ To test the Consul Catalog part, you can do:
 
 ```bash
 consul agent -dev #in a separate terminal, if not already running
-consul services register -name=example -port=1337
+consul services register -name=example -port=1337 -tag="diplonat_pub_port=1337"
 consul services -id=example
 ```
diff --git a/src/consul_actor.rs b/src/consul_actor.rs
index 0f09851..c87874d 100644
--- a/src/consul_actor.rs
+++ b/src/consul_actor.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,51 @@
 use crate::consul::Consul;
 use tokio::sync::watch;
+use tokio::time::delay_for;
+use crate::messages;
+use anyhow::Result;
+use std::cmp;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use log::*;
 
 pub struct ConsulActor {
-  consul: Consul
-  out: 
+  pub rx_open_ports: watch::Receiver<messages::OpenPorts>,
+
+  consul: Consul,
+  node: String,
+  retries: u32,
+  tx_open_ports: watch::Sender<messages::OpenPorts>
+}
+
+fn retry_to_time(retries: u32, max_time: Duration) -> Duration {
+  // 1.2^x seems to be a good value to exponentially increase time at a good pace
+  // eg. 1.2^32 = 341 seconds ~= 5 minutes - ie. after 32 retries we wait 5 minutes
+  return Duration::from_secs(cmp::max(max_time.as_secs(), 1.2f64.powf(retries as f64) as u64))
 }
 
 impl ConsulActor {
-  fn new(url: &str) -> Self {
+  fn new(url: &str, node: &str) -> Self {
+    let (tx, rx) = watch::channel(messages::OpenPorts{ports: Vec::new() });
     return Self {
-      consul: Consul::new(url);
+      consul: Consul::new(url),
+      rx_open_ports: rx,
+      tx_open_ports: tx,
+      node: node.to_string(),
+      retries: 0,
     };
   }
+
+  async fn listen(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+    loop {
+      let catalog = match self.consul.watch_node(&self.node).await {
+        Ok(c) => c,
+        Err(e) => {
+          self.retries = cmp::min(u32::MAX - 1, self.retries) + 1;
+          let will_retry_in = retry_to_time(self.retries, Duration::from_secs(600));
+          error!("Failed to query consul. Will retry in {}s. {}", will_retry_in.as_secs(), e);
+          delay_for(will_retry_in).await;
+          continue;
+        }
+      };
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 844bff9..4fee661 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+mod messages;
 mod consul;
 mod consul_actor;
 
diff --git a/src/messages.rs b/src/messages.rs
index e69de29..719d2c0 100644
--- a/src/messages.rs
+++ b/src/messages.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct OpenPorts {
+  pub ports: Vec<u16>
+}