Make maintained PoA bootnode connections configurable #7313
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PR description
This PR follows on from #7257. Specifically it makes the behaviour configurable and defaults to
off
. Since the25.7.0
release has just gone out this PR will technically be a change in behaviour, so I'll add a change log entry accordingly. However, assuming this PR is included in an upcoming release I don't imagine any users will be affected by the behaviour change.In an enterprise network with a large number of nodes, maintaining connections to the bootnodes could be problematic for the bootnodes. Defaulting the behaviour to
off
avoids the need to specifically disable the behaviour on all of the nodes, but allows a smaller chain to be configured to still treat bootnodes like static nodes.Locally, you can run these tests to catch failures early:
./gradlew build
./gradlew acceptanceTest
./gradlew integrationTest
./gradlew ethereum:referenceTests:referenceTests