Question about reachable node status

[porcupinenick]

I have an active channel to this node:

PubKey: 03aaa4b0410d6b7ca72f71fc3b9334e7389778a7b98a7e52600979f249c2d387f6
Alias: AnriBTC

However, the reachable status icon is red. I'm not sure why the visualizer is stating that this node is not reachable/not active.

[bmancini55]

This tool only checks IPv4 based addresses to determine if a node is reachable. TOR and IPv6 addresses are not currently supported.

[porcupinenick]

Could I possibly work on supporting TOR and IPv6?

[bmancini55]

Sure thing!

I mispoke on IPv6. I just took a look at the code to refresh my memory. It looks like the peer-service.js uses Node.js socket client in the net package. So this should support both IPv4 and IPv6 lookups out of the box.

TOR is still unsupported however. I think a package like socks5-http-client (https://www.npmjs.com/package/socks5-http-client) would be use useful for that.

[porcupinenick]

Ok, I'll look into it. Thanks Brian!