multi: allow LNC reconnects without restarting the proxy

LNC will automatically try to reconnect to the LND node whenever there
is an error.

Until now, losing the connection with the LND node made the proxy shut
down. When using LNC, we can simply log that we received an error and
let the library handle the reconnection.

Because we do not want to overheat the server when the backend lnd node is
down, we need to make sure that we add a timeout to the client calls.

Author: positiveblue

aperture.go

@@ -333,8 +333,18 @@ func (a *Aperture) Start(errChan chan error) error {
 					"session: %w", err)
 			}
 
+			// An LNC session will automatically try to reconnect to
+			// the node whenever an error occurs. Instead of
+			// shutting the proxy down we will just log the error.
+			lncErrChan := make(chan error)
+			go func() {
+				for err := range lncErrChan {
+					log.Errorf("lnc session error: %v", err)
+				}
+			}()
+
 			a.challenger, err = challenger.NewLNCChallenger(
-				session, lncStore, genInvoiceReq, errChan,
+				session, lncStore, genInvoiceReq, lncErrChan,
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("unable to start lnc "+

challenger/lnd.go

@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ import (
 	"github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/lntypes"
 )
 
+const (
+	// defaultLNDCallTimeout is the default timeout used for calls to the
+	// LND client.
+	defaultLNDCallTimeout = time.Second * 10
+)
+
 // LndChallenger is a challenger that uses an lnd backend to create new LSAT
 // payment challenges.
 type LndChallenger struct {
@@ -232,6 +238,7 @@ func (l *LndChallenger) readInvoiceStream(
 func (l *LndChallenger) Stop() {
 	l.invoicesCancel()
 	close(l.quit)
+	close(l.errChan)
 	l.wg.Wait()
 }
 
@@ -251,7 +258,10 @@ func (l *LndChallenger) NewChallenge(price int64) (string, lntypes.Hash,
 	}
 
 	ctx := l.clientCtx()
-	response, err := l.client.AddInvoice(ctx, invoice)
+	ctxt, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, defaultLNDCallTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	response, err := l.client.AddInvoice(ctxt, invoice)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorf("Error adding invoice: %v", err)
 		return "", lntypes.ZeroHash, err