diff --git a/hive_integration/nimbus/Dockerfile b/hive_integration/nimbus/Dockerfile
index 2bc917f06..e63bfc982 100644
--- a/hive_integration/nimbus/Dockerfile
+++ b/hive_integration/nimbus/Dockerfile
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ RUN usr/bin/nimbus -v > /version.txt
 # Inject the startup script and helper files
 COPY *.sh *.jq *.json /
 RUN chmod +x /nimbus.sh
+RUN chmod +x /enode.sh
 
 # Export the usual networking ports to allow outside access to the node
 EXPOSE 8545 8546 8547 30303 30303/udp
diff --git a/hive_integration/nimbus/enode.sh b/hive_integration/nimbus/enode.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5395afa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hive_integration/nimbus/enode.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Script to retrieve the enode
+#
+# This is copied into the validator container by Hive
+# and used to provide a client-specific enode id retriever
+#
+
+# Immediately abort the script on any error encountered
+set -e
+
+TARGET_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST  -H "Content-Type: application/json"  --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"net_nodeInfo","params":[],"id":1}' "localhost:8545" )
+
+TARGET_ENODE=$(echo ${TARGET_RESPONSE}| jq -r '.result.enode')
+echo "$TARGET_ENODE"
diff --git a/hive_integration/nimbus/nimbus.sh b/hive_integration/nimbus/nimbus.sh
index eba9c4cf2..4db6b2c95 100644
--- a/hive_integration/nimbus/nimbus.sh
+++ b/hive_integration/nimbus/nimbus.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # This script assumes the following environment variables:
 #
-#  - [ ] HIVE_BOOTNODE                enode URL of the remote bootstrap node
+#  - [x] HIVE_BOOTNODE                enode URL of the remote bootstrap node
 #  - [x] HIVE_NETWORK_ID              network ID number to use for the eth protocol
 #  - [ ] HIVE_TESTNET                 whether testnet nonces (2^20) are needed
 #  - [ ] HIVE_NODETYPE                sync and pruning selector (archive, full, light)
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ if [ "$HIVE_LOGLEVEL" != "" ]; then
   FLAGS="$FLAGS --log-level:DEBUG"
 fi
 
+# It doesn't make sense to dial out, use only a pre-set bootnode.
+if [ "$HIVE_BOOTNODE" != "" ]; then
+  FLAGS="$FLAGS --bootnodes:$HIVE_BOOTNODE"
+fi
+
 # Configure the genesis chain and use it as start block and dump it to stdout
 echo "Supplied genesis state:"
 jq -f /mapper.jq /genesis.json | tee /genesis-start.json