Network Settings

The network.hosts_file configuration setting controls the path to a cached set of peer IP addresses. An in-memory host pool is created at startup from the cache.

If the cache is empty or not found the host pool will initialize from configured seed nodes. Seeding can be bypassed by populating the hosts file with any number of addresses before startup.

The host pool is periodically updated using peer information and not written until service shutdown. The capacity of the host pool can be configured using the network.host_pool_capacity configuration setting.