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Fix dcutr roles in holepunching #3171

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We did the opposite thing of what the spec says to do. This meant that we would fail to hole-punch with rust nodes because both sides would attempt to be the dialer.

The spec is a bit confusing since roles get flipped in the middle. But essentially:

  1. A connects to B.
  2. B initiates the /libp2p/dcutr protocol.
  3. After synchronizing, A and B dial each other. A is the client and B is the server.

This means the side handling the stream is the client, and the side initiating the stream should be the server.

#3044 exposes a flag to enable the spec behavior, but it is default set to legacy behavior. There are no backwards compatible migrations in that PR.

To close this issue we should implement a backwards compatible change. One suggestion by Sukun is:

On the side that in the new code will be the Server, can we add a random wait time after which the server will switch the role to Client and initiate the security negotiation?

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