Connect to remote BTCPayServer lnd instance

I followed the instructions to connect to a remote lnd instance but continuously got the following:

2021-05-16 13:18:35.399 [INF] LITD: Dialing lnd gRPC server at btcpay.xyz.xyz:443
2021-05-16 13:18:35.501 [INF] LITD: Listening for http_tls on: 127.0.0.1:8443
2021-05-16 13:18:35.837 [WRN] GRPC: grpc: addrConn.createTransport failed to connect to {btcpay.litservices.app:443  <nil> 0 <nil>}. Err: connection error: desc = "transport: authentication handshake failed: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority". Reconnecting...
2021-05-16 13:18:35.837 [INF] SGNL: Received shutdown request.
error displaying startup info: error querying remote node : rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: authentication handshake failed: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority"
2021-05-16 13:18:35.837 [INF] SGNL: Shutting down...

Expected behavior It connects successfully.

Actual behavior 2021-05-16 13:18:35.837 [INF] SGNL: Received shutdown request. error displaying startup info: error querying remote node : rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = “transport: authentication handshake failed: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority”

System information

Running Lightning Terminal standalone on Mac version 11.2.3.

lnd-mode=remote

LiT v0.41-alpha from https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal/releases

[AryanJ-NYC]

Ah, you’re right. The nginx reverse proxy listens on that port. So probably that just uses its own certificate that you have to specify instead of lnd’s?

This sounds right. I’ll hunt down that cert, give that a shot and get back to you. Thanks!

[jamaljsr]

Going to close this now as there hasn’t been any updates. Based on the last comment, it appears there isn’t anything here fr us to do on our end. @AryanJ-NYC feel free to reply if you are still facing this issue.