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This adds the option to report an remote IP address back to a connecting
peer using the `init` message. A node can decide to use that information
to discover a potential update to its public IPv4 address (NAT) and use
that for a `node_announcement` update message containing the new address.

The proposal includes reporting the IPv4 and IPv6 address,
however in IPv6 there are likely no NAT issues. TOR is skipped for
obvious reasons.

Certain approaches to check and use this information are thinkable:
 - Wait for multiple peers or a certain fraction to report the
   same new address.
 - Check some random node known via gossip to also report the new
   address.
 - Verify this information by making a test connection to itself.
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TheBlueMatt and others added 4 commits January 17, 2022 19:40
…ng#951)

Prior to the addition of `warning` messages, BOLT 5 specified a
few cases where users should be warned that funds may have been
lost. However, it used the phrasing "send a warning" which can now
be confused  with `warning` messages. Nodes should not generally
inform their counterparty that they have been robbed.
BOLT 1: adds remote address to optional init_tlvs (IP discovery)
…ightning#942)

If a node has to fail a channel but knows that its latest commitment transaction is outdated it should not be required to send it but rather wait for the peer to unilaterally close the channel. 

The proposed solution is not so clean because it might produce a deadlock in which two peers assume they have outdated state and send `error` back and forth without actually force closing. Maybe in such a scenario we could create a protocol that mutually closes with split balance? 

Also replaced the word use with broadcast as it seems more accurate.

Co-authored-by: t-bast <[email protected]>
@ksedgwic ksedgwic force-pushed the clarify-htlc-anchor-sighash branch from 0b0aa55 to 655915c Compare January 19, 2022 19:19
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