bitcoind – Setting up and running multiple Eclair lightning node on Linux-Kali VMware

I’m a newbie dev and I’m trying to test out a micro service I’ve been working on. The service requires that I set up and run multiple eclair nodes because need to open chananels.

I’m trying to run these channels on my Kali Linux vm machine but I’ve steadily encountered error. The error has mostly been “Timed out after 30 seconds”.

I followed several Ai directions but all to no avail. My bitcoin core set up seems to work fine but the eclair will not connect to it.

I’m trying to run nthis on testnet, albeit I even tried regtest, but it’s been the same result.

Below is my Bitcoin core config settings and the eclair config settings for the two instances I’m trying to set up.

└─$ cat ~/.eclair-node2/eclair.conf

BITCOIN CORE

─$ cat ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf    

regtest=1

server=1
daemon=1
txindex=1

[regtest]
rpcport=18443
rpcallowip=0.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
rpcbind=0.0.0.0

#assumevalid=

disablewallet=0
#wallet=
#spendzeroconfchange=1
rpcuser=redpanda10
rpcpassword=myredpanda20

zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333
wallet=mywallet1
wallet=mywallet2

ECLAIR 1

└─$ cat ~/.eclair-node1/eclair.conf

eclair.chain=regtest
eclair.node-alias=mynode1
eclair.server.port=9735
eclair.api.enabled=true
eclair.api.port=8080
eclair.api.password=node1Pass21

eclair.bitcoind {

    host="0.0.0.0"
    rpcport=18443
    rpcuser="redpanda10"
    rpcpassword="myredpanda20"
    zmqblock="tcp://127.0.0.1:28332"
    zmqtx="tcp://127.0.0.1:28333"

  }

ECLAIR 2

eclair.chain=regtest
eclair.node-alias=mynode2
eclair.server.port=9736
eclair.api.enabled=true
eclair.api.port=8081
eclair.api.password=node2Pass22

eclair.bitcoind {

    host="0.0.0.0"
    rpcport=18443
    rpcuser="redpanda10"
    rpcpassword="myredpanda20"
    zmqblock="tcp://127.0.0.1:28332"
    zmqtx="tcp://127.0.0.1:28333"
  }

Please I want to know what I’m doing wrongly that is preventing my eclair node from running.