In the previous commit, all peers served an onion.
After this commit, taker client instances will automatically
send a config var to the jmdaemon backend that instructs
the OnionMessageChannel instance to not start an onion service,
and the handshake messages sent by these peers replace the
onion location with a placeholder string NOT-SERVING-ONION.
Directories and maker peers will not therefore to connect outbound
to them, but privmsging still happens p2p with connections from
takers to makers after the directory has communicated their
reachable .onion addresses.
This change reduces the configuration requirement for takers and
is better for their privacy and security (without sacrificing
the gain we get from having p2p connections).
The above comments re: takers also apply to ob-watcher bots.
This commit also fixes a large number of minor bugs and errors in
documentation, as well as many Python cleanups after review from
@PulpCattel. A few concrete items are:
It fixes the ob-watcher functionality to work with the new subclass
of MessageChannel (OnionMessageChannel).
It corrects the on_nick_leave trigger to make dynamic nick switching
between MessageChannels (as implemented in MessageChannelCollection)
work correctly.
It corrects the order of events in the add_peer workflow to ensure that
a handshake can always be sent so that the activation of the connection
always works.
It sets a default messaging config with onion, 2 active IRC servers and
one inactive IRC server. The onion config has 2 signet directory nodes,
so this will change to mainnet after the PR is merged to master.