Why am I getting a grp timeout while setting up a Hyperledger development

Question

Going by the hyperledger documentation,  I have setup a network with two validating peers and not CA. But when I try to run the "peer node status" and "peer network list" command and keep getting the following error:

Error: Error trying to connect to local peer: grpc: timed out trying to connect

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

This error usually means that Validation Peer is not started. In default configuration peer process should listen port 30303 and you can easily check that using the following:

netstat -a | grep 30303

In case if Validation Peer is started in Docker container or on remote VM the IP address should be provided:

CORE_PEER_ADDRESS=172.17.0.2:30303 ./peer node status