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# Interlude: Accessing a Second Lightning Node
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> :information_source: **NOTE:** This section has been recently added to the course and is an early draft that may still be awaiting review. Caveat reader.
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When you played with Bitcoin you were accessing an existing network, and that made it relatively easy to work with: you just turned on `bitcoind` and you were immediately interacting with the network. That's now how Lightning works: it's fundamentally a peer-to-peer network, built up from the connections between any two individual nodes. In other words, to interact with the Lightning Network, you'll need to first find a node to connect to.
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There are four ways to do so (the first three of which are possible for your first connection):
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## Asking for Information on a Node
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## Ask for Information on a Node
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If someone else already has a Lightning node on the network of your choice, just ask them for their ID.
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```
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They can then tell you their `id` (`03240a4878a9a64aea6c3921a434e573845267b86e89ab19003b0c910a86d17687`). They will also need to tell you their IP address (`74.207.240.32`) and port (`9735`).
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## Creating a New c-lightning Node
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## Create a New c-lightning Node
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However, for testing purposes, you probably want to have a second node under you own control. The easiest way to do so is to create a second c-lightning node on a new machine, using either Bitcoin Standup, per [§2.1](02_1_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md) or compiling it by hand, per [§18.1](18_1_Verifying_Your_Lightning_Setup.md).
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Once you have your node running, you can run `getinfo` to retrieve your information, as shown above.
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## Creating a New LND Node
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## Create a New LND Node
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However, for our examples in the next chapter, we're instead going to create an LND node. This will allow us to demonstrate a bit of the depth of the Lightning ecosystem by showing how similar commands work on the two different platforms.
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Another is to compile LND from source code on a machine where you'rea already running a Bitcoin node, as follows.
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### Compiling the LND Source Code
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### Compile the LND Source Code
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First, you need to download and install Go:
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```
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$ sudo cp $GOPATH/bin/lnd $GOPATH/bin/lncli /usr/bin
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```
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### Creating an LND Config File
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### Create an LND Config File
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Unlike with c-lightning, you will need to create a default config file for LND.
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EOF
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```
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### Creating an LND Service
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### Create an LND Service
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Finally, you can create an LND service to automatically run `lnd`:
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```
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```
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(Expect this to take a minute the first time.)
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### Enabling Remote Connections
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### Enable Remote Connections
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Just as with c-lightning, you're going to need to make LND accessible to other nodes. Here's how to do so if you use `ufw`, as per the Bitcoin Standup setups:
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```
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$ sudo ufw allow 9735
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```
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### Creating a Wallet
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### Create a Wallet
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The first time you run LND, you must create a wallet:
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```
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This node's ID is `032a7572dc013b6382cde391d79f292ced27305aa4162ec3906279fc4334602543`. Although this command doesn't show you the IP address and port, they should be the IP address for your machine and port `9735`.
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## Listening to Gossip
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## Listen to Gossip
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If you were already connected to the Lightning Network, and were "gossipping" with peers, you might also be able to find information on peers automatically, through the `listpeers` command:
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