Error: failed to create deliver client: orderer client failed to connect to orderer: failed to create new connection: context deadline exceeded

Question

I have been following the tutorial of Hyperledger Fabric Multi-Org setup and I was able to do it successfully. Now I want to customise it according to the name of the organization that I want to and I encountered below error when I was try to up the network. Hope someone could help me identify the problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

it might be possible due to: TLS-connection problem, Connection problem (peer does not see orderer).

Check the peer's logs in debug mode.

docker logs <peer_container_id>

Answer 2

I hit the similar error "context deadline exceeded".

My env is

• host: ubuntu 16,
• native docker: peer containers and an order container running on the host
• no virtual machine.
• Running commands on the host.

Change

export CORE_PEER_ADDRESS=peer0.org1.example.com:7051
peer channel join -o $ORDERER_ADDRESS -b $CHANNEL_BLOCK

to

export CORE_PEER_ADDRESS=localhost:7051
peer channel join -o $ORDERER_ADDRESS -b $CHANNEL_BLOCK

Fixed the error.

The way to locate the cause is checking if you can reach the addresses(orderer / peer) on the same terminal running the commands. Hope it helps.