From 325e1316978774d85e5826604be8c2d125f2357e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gabrielmer <101006718+gabrielmer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:46:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: adding peer exchange peers to the peerStore (#2824)

---
 waku/factory/node_factory.nim | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/waku/factory/node_factory.nim b/waku/factory/node_factory.nim
index f3cbb7fe7..0c0e2cab8 100644
--- a/waku/factory/node_factory.nim
+++ b/waku/factory/node_factory.nim
@@ -135,11 +135,12 @@ proc setupProtocols(
         # only peers with populated records
         .mapIt(toRemotePeerInfo(it.record.get()))
 
-      debug "connecting to exchanged peers",
+      debug "adding exchanged peers",
         src = peer, topic = topic, numPeers = exchangedPeers.len
 
-      # asyncSpawn, as we don't want to block here
-      asyncSpawn node.connectToNodes(exchangedPeers, "peer exchange")
+      for peer in exchangedPeers:
+        # Peers added are filtered by the peer manager
+        node.peerManager.addPeer(peer, PeerOrigin.PeerExchange)
 
     peerExchangeHandler = some(handlePeerExchange)