Django Freeman asked 11 months ago
Does the watchtower work? Do I need to do some port forwarding while setting up a watchtower for others to use?
Hello.
So I am trying to understand how LND watchtowers work in greater technical detail, and I have two questions:
1) I connected to few watchtowers and now I am wondering if they do really work. When I list them via
So I am trying to understand how LND watchtowers work in greater technical detail, and I have two questions:
1) I connected to few watchtowers and now I am wondering if they do really work. When I list them via
lncli wtclient towers
I get something like
"towers": [ { "pubkey": "watchtower's pubkey", "addresses": [ "onion_address.onion:9911" ], "active_session_candidate": true, "num_sessions": 0, "sessions": [ ], "session_info": [ { "active_session_candidate": true, "num_sessions": 0, "sessions": [ ], "policy_type": "ANCHOR" }, { "active_session_candidate": true, "num_sessions": 0, "sessions": [ ], "policy_type": "LEGACY" } ] }, {more watchtowers} ...]
So does this mean that this particular watchtower does indeed work? What confuses me are those "num_sessions": 0 lines. If the wtclient session is not established I cannot send any backups to that watchtower and therefore the whole thing is useless, is that right?
2) I am also trying to set up a watchtower service for my friends. I am wondering if I have to bother with some port forwarding (of port :9911) or if it is simply enough to turn it on and send them my URI... (I am running a Tor only node)
Thank you for your answers.
Best regards,
Django Freeman
2) I am also trying to set up a watchtower service for my friends. I am wondering if I have to bother with some port forwarding (of port :9911) or if it is simply enough to turn it on and send them my URI... (I am running a Tor only node)
Thank you for your answers.
Best regards,
Django Freeman
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Django Freeman wrote 11 months ago
UPDATE: two of the watchtowers now have non-zero "num_sessions" so they are obviously working
I also found that there is no need to do any port forwarding with Tor.
I also found that there is no need to do any port forwarding with Tor.
Pirate on LN wrote about 2 months ago
I have the same issue....
How did you fix it?
How did you fix it?
Django Freeman wrote about 2 months ago
I did not fix it. It just worked in the end.
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