This is a simplified re-do of closed pull #3088.
This patch eliminates the privacy and reliability problematic use
of centralized web services for discovering the node's addresses
for advertisement.
The Bitcoin protocol already allows your peers to tell you what
IP they think you have, but this data isn't trustworthy since
they could lie. So the challenge is using it without creating a
DOS vector.
To accomplish this we adopt an approach similar to the one used
by P2Pool: If we're announcing and don't have a better address
discovered (e.g. via UPNP) or configured we just announce to
each peer the address that peer told us. Since peers could
already replace, forge, or drop our address messages this cannot
create a new vulnerability... but if even one of our peers is
giving us a good address we'll eventually make a useful
advertisement.
We also may randomly use the peer-provided address for the
daily rebroadcast even if we otherwise have a seemingly routable
address, just in case we've been misconfigured (e.g. by UPNP).
To avoid privacy problems, we only do these things if discovery
is enabled.
Start the RPC server before doing all the (expensive) startup
initialisations like loading the block index. Until the node is ready,
return all calls immediately with a new error signalling "in warmup"
with an appropriate status message (similar to the init message).
This is useful for RPC clients to know that the server is there (e. g.,
they don't have to start it) but not yet available. It is used in
Namecoin and Huntercoin already for some time, and there exists a UI
hooked onto the RPC interface that actively uses this to its advantage.
1bea2bb Rename ProcessBlock to ProcessNewBlock to indicate change of behaviour, and document it (Luke Dashjr)
d29a291 Rename RPC_TRANSACTION_* errors to RPC_VERIFY_* and use RPC_VERIFY_ERROR for submitblock (Luke Dashjr)
f877aaa Bugfix: submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock, now that it no longer does the full block validity check (Luke Dashjr)
24e8896 Add CValidationInterface::BlockChecked notification (Luke Dashjr)
2191eac add tests to travis (Cory Fields)
7667850 tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts (Cory Fields)
fa7f8cd tests: remove old pull-tester scripts (Cory Fields)
5122ea7 tests: fix forknotify.py on windows (Cory Fields)
7a41614 tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment (Cory Fields)
f635269 tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows (Cory Fields)
484e350 Update comments in client version to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
6395ba3 Update comments in version to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
02fe12d Update generate-seeds.py to produce doxygen compatible comments (Michael Ford)
f2e03ff Update comments in chainparams to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
2fdc335 Update comments in chain to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
- guard 4 connect calls by an #ifdef when no wallet is loaded to fix "No
such slot" warnings
- also add comments when #ifdef ENABLE_WALLET end
- fixes#5175
