c-lightning - Unknown Peer

Everything but the last Comand looks correct. There is no command channel in c-lightning. In order to open a channel you need to execute

cli/lightning-cli fundchannel id satoshi [feerate] [announce] [minconf]
  Fund channel with {id} using {satoshi} (or 'all') satoshis, at optional {feerate}. Only use outputs that have {minconf} confirmations.

The thing that beginners sometimes oversee is that before opening a channel with a node you need to peer with it first via the connect command like you did.

Rene Pickhardt

Posted 2019-07-17T20:38:12.080

Reputation: 6 565

That was a mistake in the question, I did do fundchannel which is what gives the Unknown Peer error. Any other tests I can do to try to figure out why this is happening? – oshirowanen – 2019-07-17T21:27:14.273

can you post information from the logfile? (with loglevel debug?) – Rene Pickhardt – 2019-07-18T07:33:38.757

1Got it working. I was making a noob mistake in that I did not realise that the connect address and the fundchannel address had to be the same... – oshirowanen – 2019-07-18T15:59:37.530

Yes, that is quite a common mistake. It could also have been that between the connect and the fundchannel command the connection was lost, e.g., the remote peer closed the connection. In that case you would have had a connection on which to open a channel, but when attempting to fund the channel it'd be already gone again, – cdecker – 2019-08-03T09:25:13.637

c-lightning - Unknown Peer

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