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I cannot find where to get the host to complete a lightning channel. I have tried searching in the command prompt but cannot find host info anywhere.
how do i get my @host for LN
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Your question seems a little bit underspecified. So not sure if I can really help you. The host is your public IP address so if you are logged on the machine on which the lightning node runs you can try typing curl -4 https://icanhazip.com/ to the command line.
if you are running c-lightning you can do: lightning-cli getinfo and it will also depict your public IP address. Not sure if the other implementations have an API call to depict this information.
LND requires setting the information for generating the certificates for SSL (required) so the user must specify their own information. Will add a link in a second – PW Kad – 2019-02-25T17:28:28.550
@rene thank you for response i was able to realize my host is my ip address which i was able to obtain. i got the port for LN as well. unfortunately i was still unable to open a channel with a friend. i gave it a try and thank you for the help. – Joe Saz – 2019-02-26T14:27:54.027
@pw kad thank you for your reply as well. take care guys. – Joe Saz – 2019-02-26T14:28:18.503