Questions tagged [route-hints]

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How do route hints affect pathfinding?

I understand that route hints can be provided when generating an invoice, but how exactly do wallets use this information to assist in pathfinding? I imagine this can vary slightly between implementations since there doesn't seem to be any strict…
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What exactly are route hints?

In the documentation for LND's addInvoice rpc call there's a field for something called route_hints which are described as: Route hints that can each be individually used to assist in reaching the invoice's destination. Radar ION's wiki provides…
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what channel balances are implied by routing hints?

I understand that as part of a lightning invoice routing hints can be provided that provide information about private channels that can be used to reach the destination. I believe these are the r fields in BOLT 11. I also found a link to the LND…
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Pay private bolt11 via sendpay

I need to get fee, before send payment. BOLT11: root@855e20daeae9:/# lightning-cli --testnet decodepay…
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Destination is not reachable directly and all routehints were unusable - how might I remedy that?

After launching lightningd I get following: 2023-07-20T06:54:46.533Z UNUSUAL 038.............................................................8f--connectd: Feature 28 requires feature 20 2023-07-20T06:59:47.735Z UNUSUAL…