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Some additional detail was warranted in several places, though the
listconfigs is better off simply referring to lightningd-config.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Fixed: doc: Many missing manual pages were completed

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lightning-listnodes -- Command to get the list of nodes in the known network.

SYNOPSIS

listnodes [id]

DESCRIPTION

The listnodes command returns nodes the node has learned about via gossip messages, or a single one if the node id was specified.

EXAMPLE JSON REQUEST

{
  "id": 82,
  "method": "listnodes",
  "params": {
    "id": "02e29856dab8ddd9044c18486e4cab79ec717b490447af2d4831e290e48d57638a"
  }
}

RETURN VALUE

On success, the command will return a list of nodes, each object represents a node, with the following details:

nodeid: A string that represents the node id.

For nodes which have sent a node_announcement message, the following are also returned:

alias: A string that represents alias of the node on the network.
color: A string that represents the personal color of the node.
last_timestamp: An integer that represents the timestamp of the last-received node_announcement message.
features: A string that represents the features value.
addresses: An array that represents the addreses avaible. Each address is represented with an object with the following properties:
- type: A string that represents the address type (ipv4 or ipv6).
- address: A string that represents the address value.
- port: An integer that represents the port number where the node are listening.

On failure, one of the following error codes may be returned:

-32602: Error in given parameters.

EXAMPLE JSON RESPONSE

{
   "nodes": [
      {
         "nodeid": "02e29856dab8ddd9044c14586e4cab79ec717b490447af2d4831e290e48d58638a",
         "alias": "some_alias",
         "color": "68f442",
         "last_timestamp": 1597213741,
         "features": "02a2a1",
         "addresses": [
            {
               "type": "ipv4",
               "address": "zzz.yy.xx.xx",
               "port": 9735
            }
         ]
      }
    ]
}

AUTHOR

Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzo.palazzo@protonmail.com> wrote the initial version of this man page, but many others did the hard work of actually implementing this rpc command.

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

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