The latest version of btcd allows its stall handler to be disabled. We
use that new config option to make sure the mining btcd node and the lnd
chain backend btcd node aren't disconnected if some test takes too long
and no new p2p messages are exchanged.
With go 1.17 a change to the build flags was implemented:
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-gobuild.md
The formatter now automatically adds the forward-compatible build tag
format and the linter checks for them, so we need to include them in our
code.
With the new btcd version we can specify our own listen address
generator function for any btcd nodes. This should reduce flakiness as
the previous way of getting a free port was based on just picking a
random number which lead to conflicts.
We also double the default values for connection retries and timeouts,
effectively waiting up to 4 seconds in total now.
Previously the chainbackend connected to the miner using a permanent
connection, which would retry the connection when it’s disconnected.
It would leave multiple connections between the chainbackend and the
miner, causing difficulties in debugging. Currently, there are two
occasions when disconnection happens. One happens when running the open
channel reorg test, the miner is connected/disconnected multiple times
on purpose. The other happens when the chainbackend receives a
MSG_WITNESS_TX type from the miner, which would be considered as an
invalid type and disconnects the miner. With the latter one being fixed
in btcd, the chainbackend will still be disconnected from the miner if
it reaches the ban score by requesting too many notfound messages in a
short time which is why the `--nobanning` flag is added.
This commit gives the current chainbackend the ability to connect and
disconnect the chain backend at will. We do this to let the chain
backend initiate the connection to the miner, not the other way around.
This is a preparation for using Neutrino as a backend, as it only allows
making outbound connections.
We must also move the setup of the chainbackend to after to miner, to
know the address to connect to.
