It's become clear that our network options are insufficient, with the coming
addition of Tor and unix domain support.
Currently:
1. We always bind to local IPv4 and IPv6 sockets, unless --port=0, --offline,
or any address is specified explicitly. If they're routable, we announce.
2. --addr is used to announce, but not to control binding.
After this change:
1. --port is deprecated.
2. --addr controls what we bind to and announce.
3. --bind-addr/--announce-addr can be used to control one and not the other.
4. Unless --autolisten=0, we add local IPv4 & IPv6 port 9735 (and announce if they are routable).
5. --offline still overrides listening (though announcing is still the same).
This means we can bind to as many ports/interfaces as we want, and for
special effects we can announce different things (eg. we're sitting
behind a port forward or a proxy).
What remains to implement is semi-automatic binding: we should be able
to say '--addr=0.0.0.0:9999' and have the address resolve at bind
time, or even '--addr=0.0.0.0:0' and have the port autoresolve too
(you could determine what it was from 'lightning-cli getinfo'.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We save wireaddr to databases as a string (which is pretty dumb) but
it turned out that my local node saved '[::ffff:127.0.0.1]:49150'
which our parser can't parse.
Thus I've reworked the parser to make fewer assumptions:
parse_ip_port() is renamed to separate_address_and_port() and is now
far more accepting of different forms, and returns failure only on
grossly malformed strings. Otherwise it overwrites its *port arg only
if there's a port specified. I also made it static.
Then fromwire_wireaddr() hands the resulting address to inet_pton to
figure out if it's actually valid.
Cc: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Correctly format ipv6 address with ports. This will also make it more compatible
with the new parse_wireaddr, which has been updated to parse ports. They are
inverses now.
Also add some tests that check this.
Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
* Add port parsing support to parse_wireaddr. This is in preparation for storing
addresses in the peers table. This also makes parse_wireaddr a proper inverse of
fmt_wireaddr.
* Move parse_wireaddr to common/wireaddr.c this seems like a better place for
it. I bring along parse_ip_port with it for convenience. This also fixes some
issues with the upcoming ip/port parsing tests.
Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
On unmarshal, we stop unmarshaling on a 0 (ADDR_TYPE_PADDING) type. So
we should also stop marshaling in that case.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In future it will have TOR support, so the name will be awkward.
We collect the to/fromwire functions in common/wireaddr.c, and the
parsing functions in lightningd/netaddress.c.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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