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fix(iroh-net): Keep the relay connection alive on read errors (#2782)
## Description When the connection to the relay server fails the read channel will return a read error. At this point the ActiveRelay actor will passively wait until it has been asked to send something again before it will re-establish a connection. However if the local node has no reason to send anything to the relay server, the connection is never re-established. This is problematic when the relay has remote nodes trying to send to this node. This doubly problematic when the connection is to the home relay: the node just sits there thinking everything is healty and quiet, but no traffic is reaching it. In a node with active traffic this doesn't really show up, since a send will be triggered quickly for an active connection and the connection with the relay server would be re-established. The start of the ActiveRelay run loop is the right place for this. A read error triggers the loop to go round, logs a read error already and then re-estagblishes the connection. This does not keep the relay connection open forever. The mechanism that is cleans up unused connections to relay servers will still function correctly since this only takes the time something was last sent to a relay server into account. As long as a connection with a remote node exists there will be a DISCO ping between the two nodes over the relay path, so the connection is correctly kept alive. The home relay is exempted from the relay connection cleanup so is also kept connected, leaving this node available to be contacted via the relay server. Which is the entire point of this bugfix. The relay_client.is_connected() call sends a message to the relay Client actor, and relay_client.connect() does that again. Taking the shortcut to only call .connect() however is not better because the logging becomes messier. In the common case there is one roundrip-message to the relay Client actor and this would not improve anyway. The two messages for the case where a reconnect is needed does not occur commonly. ## Breaking Changes None ## Notes & open questions Fixes fishfolk/bones#428 It is rather difficult to test though. This targets #2781 as base. ## Change checklist - [x] Self-review. - ~~[ ] Documentation updates following the [style guide](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1574-more-api-documentation-conventions.html#appendix-a-full-conventions-text), if relevant.~~ - ~~[ ] Tests if relevant.~~ - ~~[ ] All breaking changes documented.~~
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