LND keeps syncing to graph for DAYS

[z3n]

Hello all,

Newbie here trying to step into Lightning universe, so please bear with me.

I was following Paul’s guide to mine BTC at home with Datum and Start9 and found out that Paul is migrating to LND, so I tried to install LND right after installing CLN but LND keeps syncing to graph for almost 3 days now.

2025-06-17T13:15:27+07:00  2025-06-17 06:15:27.468 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:16:27+07:00  2025-06-17 06:16:27.469 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:16:27+07:00  2025-06-17 06:16:27.471 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:16:30+07:00  2025-06-17 06:16:30.576 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:17:30+07:00  2025-06-17 06:17:30.576 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:17:36+07:00  2025-06-17 06:17:36.658 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:17:36+07:00  2025-06-17 06:17:36.660 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:18:36+07:00  2025-06-17 06:18:36.662 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:18:42+07:00  2025-06-17 06:18:42.805 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:18:42+07:00  2025-06-17 06:18:42.807 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:19:42+07:00  2025-06-17 06:19:42.808 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:19:43+07:00  2025-06-17 06:19:43.800 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:19:43+07:00  2025-06-17 06:19:43.802 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:20:10+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:10.486 [INF] GRPH: Pruning channel graph using block 0000000000000000000036d333d571dea6553038e926d54f6b8f367cba2bc6ab (height=901594)
2025-06-17T13:20:10+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:10.519 [INF] GRPH: Block 0000000000000000000036d333d571dea6553038e926d54f6b8f367cba2bc6ab (height=901594) closed 0 channels
2025-06-17T13:20:10+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:10.523 [INF] NTFN: New block: height=901594, sha=0000000000000000000036d333d571dea6553038e926d54f6b8f367cba2bc6ab
2025-06-17T13:20:10+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:10.523 [INF] UTXN: Attempting to graduate height=901594: num_kids=0, num_babies=0
2025-06-17T13:20:43+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:43.803 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:20:43+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:43.806 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:20:44+07:00  2025-06-17 06:20:44.767 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:21:44+07:00  2025-06-17 06:21:44.767 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:21:52+07:00  2025-06-17 06:21:52.773 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:21:52+07:00  2025-06-17 06:21:52.773 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:22:52+07:00  2025-06-17 06:22:52.774 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]
2025-06-17T13:22:55+07:00  2025-06-17 06:22:55.637 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:22:55+07:00  2025-06-17 06:22:55.639 [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found
2025-06-17T13:23:55+07:00  2025-06-17 06:23:55.640 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: Authenticated Channel Graph
2025-06-17T13:23:55+07:00  2025-06-17 06:23:55.642 [INF] DISC: Attempting to bootstrap with: BOLT-0010 DNS Seed: [[nodes.lightning.directory soa.nodes.lightning.directory] [lseed.bitcoinstats.com ]]

Had tried to restart LND, restart Start9 few times and even re-install Start OS with no luck.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[paul]

I haven’t seen that before. If I’m reading the logs correctly, [ERR] SRVR: Unable to retrieve initial bootstrap peers: no addresses found looks like LND tried to ask the two BOLT-0010 DNS seeds
nodes.lightning.directory and lseed.bitcoinstats.com for a handful of public nodes and got zero answers every time.

This is probably a goofy idea, but if we assume the problem is not on your server but with the DNS seeds, then we should be able to fix it by adding some peers manually to get the graph bootstrapped. Worth a shot, I think.

To do that, install Ride The Lightning and launch it. Go to Lightning > Peers/Channels > Peers > Add Peer. From 1ml.com look up the following nodes, and add each as a peer.

ACINQ
Voltage
WalletOfSatoshi.com

You don’t need to open any channels, just add them as peers and click “Do it Later” when it gets to the open channel step. Let me know if that doesn’t work, and we can do some more troubleshooting.

[z3n]

Thank you Paul. Followed your instruction and now LND finally synced successfully!

https://paulscode.com/t/decommissioning-lightning-node-paulscode-migrating-to-lnd/674/3?u=z3n

Looking forward to your next tutorial video, Paul. Glad I found this Community!