fix(transport_iroh): preflight with peers homed on another relay

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Two nodes using different iroh relays cannot connect. own_url_for_preflight returns None unless the peer shares one of our relays, so the preflight fails in both directions with "Connection attempted/received before home relay URL is known", and the connection is retried indefinitely. This was originally done on purpose, now fixed.

The preflight now advertises our per-space URL when the peer is on that relay, and our home-relay URL otherwise. A per-space relay is never advertised to a peer that is not on it: if our home relay is one a space brought and the peer is on a different relay, the preflight is still refused.

Testing

• New integration test send_and_receive_space_notify_across_relays runs two transports on separate relays. It fails on main and passes here.
• Unit tests for own_url_for_preflight cover the fallback, an unshared per-space relay, and the no-URL case. own_url_for_preflight_unknown_relay_returns_none is replaced by ..._falls_back_to_global.

Notes

• This affects released versions back to 0.4.1; a backport to release-0.5 needed

AI disclosure: this change & PR was developed with LLM and reviewed/editd by me.

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own_url_for_preflight selects a per-space URL when the peer relay matches. Otherwise, it returns the global URL when that URL's relay matches the peer relay and is eligible for that peer. The function returns no URL when the relay cannot be extracted or no eligible URL is available. Unit tests cover these cases. An integration test verifies notifications in both directions between endpoints on separate relays.

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Cross-relay preflight retains the global-URL fallback, and no actionable merge-blocking issue is established. The integration test was inspected but not run.

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- Line 854: Keep the stable global relay URL separate from the watcher’s
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[mattyg]

I knew we had discussions about this, because I had wanted it too initially. I had gpt-6 look back into the ticket history and pull it up.

It was a deliberate decision not to allow peers to use different relays because currently we support gating access to a relay by an auth server, and if we allow peers to bring their own relay, they can communicate with other peers bypassing that authentication.

This comment summarizes it: #479 (comment)