diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eff3603cb4..6ae9187e27 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -32,3 +32,6 @@ dist
 
 # deepsource cli
 bin
+
+# p2p metaData
+metaData
diff --git a/beacon-chain/p2p/metaData b/beacon-chain/p2p/metaData
deleted file mode 100644
index 30af5db892..0000000000
Binary files a/beacon-chain/p2p/metaData and /dev/null differ