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Merge #19958: doc: Better document features of feelers

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2ea62cae48 Improve docs about feeler connections (Gleb Naumenko)

Pull request description:

  "feeler" and "test-before-evict" are two different strategies suggest in [Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-heilman.pdf). In our codebase, we use `ConnType::FEELER` to implement both.

  It is confusing, up to the point that our documentation was just incorrect.

  This PR:
  - ~clarifies this aspect by renaming "ConnType::FEELER" to "ConnType::PROBE", meaning that this connections only probes that the node is operational, and then disconnects.~
  - fixes the documentation

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@@ -153,10 +153,19 @@ enum class ConnectionType {
MANUAL,
/**
* Feeler connections are short lived connections used to increase the
* number of connectable addresses in our AddrMan. Approximately every
* FEELER_INTERVAL, we attempt to connect to a random address from the new
* table. If successful, we add it to the tried table.
* Feeler connections are short-lived connections made to check that a node
* is alive. They can be useful for:
* - test-before-evict: if one of the peers is considered for eviction from
* our AddrMan because another peer is mapped to the same slot in the tried table,
* evict only if this longer-known peer is offline.
* - move node addresses from New to Tried table, so that we have more
* connectable addresses in our AddrMan.
* Note that in the literature ("Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network")
* only the latter feature is referred to as "feeler connections",
* although in our codebase feeler connections encompass test-before-evict as well.
* We make these connections approximately every FEELER_INTERVAL:
* first we resolve previously found collisions if they exist (test-before-evict),
* otherwise connect to a node from the new table.
*/
FEELER,