Set a persistent peer, this route in under unsafe, and has to manually enabled to use.
Example: curl 'localhost:26657/dial_peers?peers=["f9baeaa15fedf5e1ef7448dd60f46c01f1a9e9c4@1.2.3.4:26656","0491d373a8e0fcf1023aaf18c51d6a1d0d4f31bd@5.6.7.8:26656"]&persistent=false'
Dialing seeds in progress. See /net_info for details
"Dialing seeds in progress. See /net_info for details"