distinguish between seeds and manual peers in the config/flags

- we only use seeds if we can’t connect to peers in the addrbook.
- we always connect to nodes given in config/flags

Refs #864

rpc/core/doc.go

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Endpoints that require arguments:
 /broadcast_tx_commit?tx=_
 /broadcast_tx_sync?tx=_
 /commit?height=_
-/dial_seeds?seeds=_
+/dial_manual_peers?manual_peers=_
 /subscribe?event=_
 /tx?hash=_&prove=_
 /unsafe_start_cpu_profiler?filename=_

rpc/core/net.go

@@ -54,18 +54,18 @@ func NetInfo() (*ctypes.ResultNetInfo, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
-func UnsafeDialSeeds(seeds []string) (*ctypes.ResultDialSeeds, error) {
+func UnsafeDialManualPeers(manual_peers []string) (*ctypes.ResultDialManualPeers, error) {
 
-	if len(seeds) == 0 {
-		return &ctypes.ResultDialSeeds{}, fmt.Errorf("No seeds provided")
+	if len(manual_peers) == 0 {
+		return &ctypes.ResultDialManualPeers{}, fmt.Errorf("No manual peers provided")
 	}
-	// starts go routines to dial each seed after random delays
-	logger.Info("DialSeeds", "addrBook", addrBook, "seeds", seeds)
-	err := p2pSwitch.DialSeeds(addrBook, seeds)
+	// starts go routines to dial each peer after random delays
+	logger.Info("DialManualPeers", "addrBook", addrBook, "manual_peers", manual_peers)
+	err := p2pSwitch.DialPeersAsync(addrBook, manual_peers, true)
 	if err != nil {
-		return &ctypes.ResultDialSeeds{}, err
+		return &ctypes.ResultDialManualPeers{}, err
 	}
-	return &ctypes.ResultDialSeeds{"Dialing seeds in progress. See /net_info for details"}, nil
+	return &ctypes.ResultDialManualPeers{"Dialing manual peers in progress. See /net_info for details"}, nil
 }
 
 // Get genesis file.

rpc/core/pipe.go

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ type P2P interface {
 	NumPeers() (outbound, inbound, dialig int)
 	NodeInfo() *p2p.NodeInfo
 	IsListening() bool
-	DialSeeds(*p2p.AddrBook, []string) error
+	DialPeersAsync(*p2p.AddrBook, []string, bool) error
 }
 
 //----------------------------------------------

rpc/core/routes.go

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ var Routes = map[string]*rpc.RPCFunc{
 
 func AddUnsafeRoutes() {
 	// control API
-	Routes["dial_seeds"] = rpc.NewRPCFunc(UnsafeDialSeeds, "seeds")
+	Routes["dial_manual_peers"] = rpc.NewRPCFunc(UnsafeDialManualPeers, "manual_peers")
 	Routes["unsafe_flush_mempool"] = rpc.NewRPCFunc(UnsafeFlushMempool, "")
 
 	// profiler API

rpc/core/types/responses.go

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ type ResultNetInfo struct {
 	Peers     []Peer   `json:"peers"`
 }
 
-type ResultDialSeeds struct {
+type ResultDialManualPeers struct {
 	Log string `json:"log"`
 }