Help with LND setup, getting IP lookup warnings

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#1Mar 3, 2025, 05:05 AM
Hey Bitcoin fam, hope you're all doing well. Not sure if I'm posting in the right spot, so bear with me, I'm still figuring this whole forum thing out. I'm in the process of setting up my own LND, but I've hit a snag that feels pretty concerning. Whenever I check my logs or fire up the terminal, it runs fine for a bit, and then I get this endless stream of warnings. The node appears to be online, and it's synced to the graph, but I'm worried that these warnings mean my LND isn't actually able to connect to the network, or maybe there's an issue with my p2p discovery. Is this something that's normal? I could really use some input from the tech-savvy folks here. By the way, I'm working with an older Mac, just in case that matters...
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#2Mar 3, 2025, 01:20 PM
I think you should rather move your topic to Bitcoin Technical Support. It belongs there if you have some technical issues with a node than in this section where the technical discussion is more in general about the Bitcoin network, its clients, ... I don't think your issues fits this board's description: Also, please provide more details. What did you install specifically, did you follow an installation recipe, if yes, which one? Imagine someone who wants to help you and ask yourself if you provided them enough details to grasp and understand your setup. How is your (old) Mac connected to the internet? Is this connection stable? Does your network have any firewall or other stuff that could block things. Your screenshot is basically unreadable small. You could post a thumbnail that links to a larger screenshot which doesn't require eagle's eyes. talkimg.com as forum's prefered image hoster gives you all such options easily.
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#3Mar 4, 2025, 05:41 AM
Based from what I can perceive from the screenshot, the error isn't limited to that peer as the other lines seem different. Since your node is online, it may be normal logs about offline nodes that you're trying to connect to (can't tell most of the domain names in the screenshot). Or if there are far too many and you're exclusively connected to peers with plain IP address, perhaps you have DNS issue where your machine can't resolve those addresses' IP. Anyways, you can provide more info and better readable screenshot.
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#4Mar 4, 2025, 08:37 AM
Well I kinda suspected the same thing, I thought it was a DNS issue, not until after I reconfigured the system resolver to use Cloudflare DNS, and even Google public DNS, but the WRN log still won’t go away. Please what infos would you like me to provide?
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#5Mar 4, 2025, 12:49 PM
Just some details like config that aren't private or command line args that you've used and if you have any active channels. But those warnings most likely mean that those nodes aren't online to begin with and your node is still trying to connect to them. If it's in your config under "addpeers", you can remove those and those lines shouldn't appear in the log/terminal anymore.
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