The test framework's p2p implementation currently sends out it's VERSION
message immediately after an inbound connection (i.e. TestNode outbound
connection) is made. This doesn't follow the usual protocol flow where
the initiator sends a version first, and the responders processes that
and only then responds with its own version message. Change that
accordingly by only sending immediate VERSION message for outbound
connections (or after v2 handshake for v2 connections, respectively),
and sending out VERSION messages as response for incoming VERSION
messages (i.e. in the function `on_version`) for inbound connections.
Note that some of the overruled `on_version` methods in functional tests
needed to be changed to send the version explicitly.
eaf6be0114 [net processing] Do not request transaction relay from feeler connections (John Newbery)
0220b834b1 [test] Add testing for outbound feeler connections (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Feelers are short-lived connections used to test the viability of peers. The bitcoind node will periodically open feeler connections to addresses in its addrman, wait for a `version` message from the peer, and then close the connection.
Currently, we set `fRelay` to `1` in the `version` message for feeler connections, indicating that we want the peer to relay transactions to us. However, we close the connection immediately on receipt of the `version` message, and so never process any incoming transaction announcements. This PR changes that behaviour to instead set `fRelay` to `0` indicating that we do not wish to receive transaction announcements from the peer.
This PR also extends the `addconnection` RPC to allow creating outbound feeler connections from the node to the test framework, and a test to verify that the node sets `fRelay` to `0` in the `version` message to feeler connections.
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Open max number of full-relay and block-relay-only connections from a
functional test with different sorts of behaviors to ensure it behaves as
expected.
Sebastian Falbesoner