BOLT#7 outlines in the rules for receiving channel_announcement
messages, that any previously known channel with differing node_ids, should result in the blacklisting of all associated nodes for both the current message and the previously known channel.
if it has previously received a valid channel_announcement, for the same transaction, in the same block, but for a different node_id_1 or node_id_2:
- SHOULD blacklist the previous message's node_id_1 and node_id_2, as well as this node_id_1 and node_id_2 AND forget any channels connected to them.
EDIT:
I suppose a potential way around the above would be to wait over 2 weeks and publish no updates. Since the software will generally forget about nodes or channels which they have not received an update for in two weeks, then when you broadcast a node_announcement
for a previous channel under a new node_id
, then other network participants will just see it as a new channel.
This would need negotiating with the channel partner to not close it and to re-establish it under a new node_id, which there is currently no means of doing so in the existing spec.