diff --git a/docs/nodes/full-consensus-node.mdx b/docs/nodes/full-consensus-node.mdx
index 3eb21af6735..4a0f20c3f2b 100644
--- a/docs/nodes/full-consensus-node.mdx
+++ b/docs/nodes/full-consensus-node.mdx
@@ -239,21 +239,44 @@ Please refer to the [ports](../../nodes/celestia-node/#ports) section for inform
 which ports are required to be open on your machine.
 :::
 
-### Optional: configure for RPC endpoint
+### Optional: Configuring an RPC endpoint
 
-You can configure your full consensus node to be a public RPC endpoint
-and listen to any connections from Data Availability Nodes in order to
-serve requests for the Data Availability API [here](../developers/node-tutorial.mdx).
+You can configure your Consensus Full Node to be a public RPC endpoint.
+This allows it to accept connections from Data Availability Nodes and
+serve requests for the Data Availability API.
 
-Run the following commands:
+#### Expose RPC
+
+By default, the RPC service listens on `localhost` which means it can't
+be accessed from other machines. To make the RPC service available publicly,
+you need to bind it to a public IP or `0.0.0.0` (which means listening on all
+available network interfaces).
+
+You can do this by editing the config.toml file:
 
 ```sh
-EXTERNAL_ADDRESS=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
-sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address = \"\"/external_address = \"$EXTERNAL_ADDRESS:26656\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
 sed -i 's#"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657"#"tcp://0.0.0.0:26657"#g' ~/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
 ```
 
-Restart `celestia-appd` in the previous step to load those configs.
+This command replaces the `localhost` IP address with `0.0.0.0`, making the
+RPC service listen on all available network interfaces.
+
+#### Note on `external-address`
+
+The `external-address` field in the configuration is used when your node
+is behind a NAT and you need to advertise a different address for peers
+to dial. Populating this field is not necessary for making the RPC
+endpoint public.
+
+```sh
+EXTERNAL-ADDRESS=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
+sed -i.bak -e "s/^external-address = ""/external-address = "$EXTERNAL-ADDRESS:26656"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
+```
+
+#### Restart the node
+
+After making these changes, restart `celestia-appd` to load the new
+configurations.
 
 ## Transaction indexer configuration options