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Zeus payment to kagi times out
122 sats \ 2 comments \ @BallLightning 12h lightning

Previously I had the following unresolved problems with Zeus embedded node on Android GrapheneOS:

  • Channel to Megaligh LSP was force closed
  • Channel to Zeus server, olympus, was force closed two weeks after I purchased significant amount of liquidity from them for six months
  • I have a warning that I have too many zombie channels (currently 44816) and even though I reset the express graph sync data around 20 times, the zombie channel count remains around this level and slowly increases with the passing weeks.

Now my current problem. I am trying for Kagi subscription. They use opennode as their payment processor. Kagi redirects me to opennode, where I can see the lightning invoice. I try to pay it and it times out EVERY time. I increased the timeout to 3 minutes and it still times out. I am not sure whether the problem is with the wallet or with opennode. Has anybody paid anything that uses opennode as their payment processor? What wallet did you use if you have?

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

The zombies number is not important for the payment.
Important is that you "see" an approximate number of ONLINE nodes from the LN graph.
Something like this

The fact that you get the alert about the zombies is because YOUR ARE NOT SYNCING well, you have a bad connection to your peers.
I have explained that so many times, but seems that you do not understand how it works.

To start Zeus will be 3 steps:

  • first it sync the blocks headers with the neutrino peers
  • then it download from the LSP the most updated LN graph, is a compressed file not so large.
  • then it connect with 2-3 LN peers, mostly with the ones you have channels.

You get that "zombies" error because your LN graph is not already synced, it doesn't start if you do not sync first the block headers.

Please review your neutrino peers and if you have a ping more than 200ms - that is YOUR problem.
So change the connection, change the peers, leave only 2 max 3 in the list to connect.
Do not use Tor, because is totally useless and is only adding more latency (ping).
You do not have to reset express graph sync several times. Is totally useless to reset if you do not sync well the neutrino peers.

YOU CANNOT make any reasonable payment if your node doesn't "see" correctly the payment path due to wrong version of LN graph.

If you check your logs you will see exactly what I am saying.

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11h

When I pay Kagi I do it from my always on LND node that has a single private Tor channel with SN. I haven't had a problem.

I pay yearly though, so it's been a couple months and something might've changed.

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