List of dcrlnd peers

[kvetak]

Dear developers,

I am a researcher at Brno University of Technology conducting research into the status of Lightning Network adoption.

I have cloned this repository, built the dcrd and dcrlnd Docker images (resuing this https://github.com/decred/dcrlnd/tree/master/docker), and run them for a couple of hours. Dcrd downloaded the entire blockchain and Dcrlnd synchronised its chain state with the current tip. However, I have been unable to reach any other peers in Decred's LN. At least, that is my understanding based on the logging output:

dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:48.930 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: []
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:48.930 [ERR] DISC: Unable to query bootstrapper BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: []: empty dns seeder
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:48.930 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:48.930 [ERR] SRVR: No addresses returned by boostrappers. Bumping attempt count.
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:53.319 [INF] CRTR: Pruning channel graph using block ac2097ffa57362a5ebd01a69533bb3aba4957e8bf7ae6ce63e4e496269d3d5e7 (height=1065810)
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:53.319 [INF] CRTR: Block ac2097ffa57362a5ebd01a69533bb3aba4957e8bf7ae6ce63e4e496269d3d5e7 (height=1065810) closed 0 channels
dcrlnd-1  | 2026-03-26 19:10:53.321 [INF] DCRW: Connected block ac2097ffa57362a5ebd01a69533bb3aba4957e8bf7ae6ce63e4e496269d3d5e7, height 1065810, 0 wallet transaction(s)

Hence, I am curious:

1. Is Decred's LN still in use?
2. If so, is there a list of static, well-known Decred LN peers that I can put into my dcrlnd configuration to bypass empty DNS seeders?

Best regards, and thanks in advance for any responses.

[matheusd]

It is mostly being used in the context of Bison Relay.

The Bison Relay team runs a couple of public hub nodes:

03bd03386d7b2efe80ae46d6c8cfcfdfcf9c9297a465ac0d48c110d11ae58ed509 45.32.162.169:9735
0383d87fac48e6e265b301d6de6ddfd2e256bf358aa1846259815f6a8fdc465a89 45.77.114.13:9735

[kvetak]

Okay, thank you very much.

I have two follow-up questions:

1. I tried adding them using the argument --addpeer=X.X.X.X in dcrlnd. However, it seems that this argument is not available for dcrlnd, unlike for LND for BTC (see https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/sample-lnd.conf#L244). How should I use the IP address that you specified without this argument on the current master of dcrlnd?

2. Could you please reveal how you obtained the two suggested IPs?

Kind regards.

[matheusd]

1. Not sure about --addpeer but the standard way of specifying new peers is the dcrlncli connect pubkey@host command

2. hub0 is hardcoded in bisonrelay. Not sure how I got the other one (maybe I got connected to it automatically or someone asked me to test it)

https://github.com/companyzero/bisonrelay/blob/8b1a3b4bd3d67af5ad50a9bfd9b5dc3660ca85ef/brclient/lnopenchannel.go#L23-L24