The getblockfrompeer RPC attempts to fetch block from a given peer. Must have the header for this block, e.g. using submitheader. Subsequent calls for the same block and a new peer will cause the response from the previous peer to be ignored.
getblockfrompeer "blockhash" peer_id
*bitcoin-cli help getblockfrompeer
getblockfrompeer "blockhash" peer_id
Attempt to fetch block from a given peer.
We must have the header for this block, e.g. using submitheader.
Subsequent calls for the same block and a new peer will cause the response from the previous peer to be ignored.
Returns an empty JSON object if the request was successfully scheduled.
Arguments:
1. blockhash (string, required) The block hash to try to fetch
2. peer_id (numeric, required) The peer to fetch it from (see getpeerinfo for peer IDs)
Result:
{} (empty JSON object)
Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getblockfrompeer "00000000c937983704a73af28acdec37b049d214adbda81d7e2a3dd146f6ed09" 0
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "getblockfrompeer", "params": ["00000000c937983704a73af28acdec37b049d214adbda81d7e2a3dd146f6ed09" 0]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/