[Lightning-dev] Measuring Lightning Nodes

Alex Evanovic alex.evanovic.151 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 09:34:12 UTC 2018


Hi, I will actually be interested in measuring the network topology. Can I
get a graph (or) all measurements of the lightning network topology from
explorer sites such as www.1ml.com?

Thanks,
Swayam

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Davison <otoburb at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>If you want to just get the information without doing anything or
> running a node, then you can look it up on explorer sites, like **1ml dot
> org.**
>
> I believe Artem meant 1ml dot com.
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:37 AM Артём Литвинович <theartlav at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Define "measure".
> >
> > If you want to know how many nodes and channels are there, you need to
> connect to any LN node and set initial_routing_sync flag in init message.
> This will prompt the peer to send you the whole gossip dump, containing
> node and channel info of every public node/channel (sans channel
> capacities).
> >
> > If you don't want to make stuff but just to query your c-lightning node,
> then use listnodes and listchannels commands with lightning-cli.
> >
> > If you want to just get the information without doing anything or
> running a node, then you can look it up on explorer sites, like 1ml dot org.
> >
> >
> > -Artem
> >
> > 2018-07-29 17:21 GMT+03:00 Alex Evanovic <alex.evanovic.151 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Hope you are well.
> >>
> >> Can you please suggest how can I measure lightning nodes, in its
> current state?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Alex
> >> ᐧ
> >>
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