Resolved -> RTFM Worked like a champ, first try. Thanks! Wish I had thought to look into that sooner! My c-lightning node’s resource footprint is even smaller now. Unfairly small.
And now that I’ve unexpectedly regained ~180 GB worth of free SSD space from not having that extra full node, I’m feeling wealthy. Accordingly, I’m off to squander my newfound riches over at satoshis’s place. ) > On Jun 13, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Christian Decker <decker.christ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Brian Lockhart <brianlockh...@gmail.com> writes: >> In the interest of avoiding running multiple bitcoind full nodes - is there >> a method to allow a Lightning node to point to / access a separate >> already-existing node, vs. requiring it to have its own dedicated local >> instance of bitcoind running? >> >> I.e. if I already have a full bitcoin node running, could I use RPC calls >> or something to tell my Lightning node to use that node, instead of >> spinning up *another* full node? I’m currently minimizing the network >> thrashing by whitelisting my LN bitcoind node to only point to my existing >> full node for updates, but if I could just point my whole LN node at it, >> that’s save on disk storage etc. etc. etc. > > Certainly, that's supported by all 3 implementations: > > - With c-lightning you can either configure `bitcoin-cli` to connect to > a remote node with the `rpcconnect`, `rpcuser`, and `rpcpassword` > options in the `bitcoin.conf` file (at which point all calls to > `bitcoin-cli` will use that node) or you can use the following > command line options when starting `lightningd`: `--bitcoin-rpcuser`, > `--bitcoin-rpcpassword` and `--bitcoin-rpcconnect` > - lnd allows you to specify the node to connect to using the command > line options `--bitcoind.rpchost`, `--bitcoind.rpcuser`, and > `--bitcoind.rpcpass`. > - Eclair requires you to edit the configuration file [1] before > compiling afaik > > Cheers, > Christian > > > [1] > https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/blob/master/eclair-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev