Melbourne Bayside asked over 2 years ago

Unable to connect to peer, tor host is unreachable

Trying to open a channel from an umbrel node with Tor running, to a non .onion lightning address. I go to open it and the following is stated. - Unable to connect to peer, tor host is unreachable. My Tor is running fine so i presume it means the connection but they obviously aren't doing it over Tor.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm not doubt just being a moron.

8 Comments

Guilty Spark wrote over 2 years ago

I believe you have to add that node as a peer first in Thunderhub and then try again to open a channel. Something along those lines. Multiple people have asked this question in swaps so try and look there.

Melbourne Bayside wrote over 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply, Tried it though Thunderhub and RTL adding them as a peer, but it says the same thing -Tor node unreachable

8DegreesWO wrote over 2 years ago

what is the tor node address?

StarsHollow wrote over 2 years ago

i had the same, i think because of some tor network congestion or misconfiguration on my end. the other peer was able to connect to my node over tor, that fixed it as i could open the channel after that

The_Amber_Road wrote over 2 years ago

Melbourne, were you able to fix this issue? I'm having it right now

The_Amber_Road wrote over 2 years ago

As a follow up... the other user with the clearnet address added me as a peer. Then I was able to open a channel with him on my umbrel tor node

Nodey McNode face wrote almost 2 years ago

FIXED - it was probably - Restarting my (MyNode) that fixed it.

Nodey McNode face wrote almost 2 years ago

May also have been Tor browser 🤷🏻‍♂️

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