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addnode

addnode "node" "command"

Attempts to add or remove a node from the addnode list.

Or try a connection to a node once.

Nodes added using addnode (or -connect) are protected from DoS disconnection and are not required to be full nodes/support SegWit as other outbound peers are (though such peers will not be synced from).

Argument #1 - node​

Type: string, required

The node (see getpeerinfo for nodes)

Argument #2 - command​

Type: string, required

‘add’ to add a node to the list, ‘remove’ to remove a node from the list, ‘onetry’ to try a connection to the node once

Result​

null (json null)

Example usage (with RPC call)​

BGL-cli addnode "192.168.0.6:8334" "onetry"
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "addnode", "params": ["192.168.0.6:8333", "onetry"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/