It will now listen on an IPv6 socket if possible or fall back to IPv4
if that doesn't work. It will no longer filter out all IPv6 addresses
and instead it will only filter out those that point to the local
network.
It looks like the DNS bootstrapping should just automatically work
because getaddrinfo already returns IPv6 addresses from the AAAA
record.
In order to convert from the ASCII representation of IPv6 addresses
and back we need inet_ntop and inet_pton. Python 2 doesn't currently
provide these for Windows so instead this patch provides a hot patch
to the socket module which wraps WSAStringToAddress and
WSAAddressToString using ctypes.
Until now many parts of the code assumed that IP addresses are
unique for peers. However, more than one Bitmessage instance might
be running with a given IP address due to multi-user systems or
firewalls.
This allows other clients to insert headers in extra lines of text between
the Subject and Body fields of the message, as discussed on the 24x7 mailing
list. The PyBitmessage client was never able to meaningfully display
multi-line subjects, so this does not break anything. The extra lines are
thrown away and never stored anywhere, so this also protects against
watermarking attacks.
As per http://docs.python.org/2/howto/sockets.html#using-a-socket it's
possible that a socket recv() call returns 0 bytes if the remote closes
the connection. In that case, recv() does not obey settimeout(): it
just doesn't block and returns zero bytes immediately, which in this
case results in an infinite loop if the transmission was incomplete.
