Is there a way to export/import peers?

Question

Every time I stop and re-start Geth, I wait for it to discover peers. Can I instead export my list of currently connected peers and use them as bootnodes in my next start? I know this list will act as a central peer database but still, more peers should mean more safety, right? I would really appreciate a code snippet for this.

Thanks,

Answer 1

As i know there is not built in option to do so, however you could do it using a script : i am trying here to give you some response elements. the following snippet to output all the connected peers

admin.peers.forEach(function(value){console.log(value.id+"@"+value.network.remoteAddress)})

you need to write a script which read the outputs and use them as bootnodes

Answer 2

With the current version of geth, peers already contains enode then we can simply export peers by below javascript code snippet

admin.peers.forEach(function(value){console.log(value.enode)})