changing bootnodes (in genesis file)

[dorijan]

Hi to all,
is it possible to change bootnodes (or add more) to genesis file without restarting whole network?
I mean, I can restart all the nodes, but I would like to have all the transactions up.
when I tried to change them in genesis file, and restart all the nodes, nodes would not recoonect and got
polygon.network.discovery: Unable to execute bootnode peer discovery

Also, I see that --join no longer works, when I try this

polygon-edge server --join /ip4/192.168.xx.xx/tcp/10001/p2p/16Uiu2HAmFxxxxx
Error: unknown flag: --join

Thank you,
Dorijan

[dorijan]

to answer myself, I manged to change genesis file, but also had to put
--libp2p 0.0.0.0:10001 --nat x.x.x.x
maybe this will help someone

[ivanbozic21]

Hi @dorijan

Apology for the late response.

The --join flag is no longer in use, and our documentation was accordingly updated now.

Please know once you added a new bootnode entry in your genesis file, there is no need to restart your entire network and you can just restart a validator that is supposed to become a new bootnode.