Change it from "timeout" to "tor_timeout" in order to indicate that the
DNS timeout is one from tor's DNS threshold and not the DNS server
itself.
Fixes#40527
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Tor has configure libevent to attempt up to 3 times a DNS query for a
maximum of 5 seconds each. Once that 5 seconds has elapsed, it consider
the query "Timed Out" but tor only gets a timeout if all 3 attempts have
failed.
For example, using Unbound, it has a much higher threshold of timeout.
It is well defined in
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/info-timeout/ and has
some complexity to it. But the gist is that if it times out, it will be
much more than 5 seconds.
And so the Tor DNS timeouts are more of a "UX issue" rather than a
"network issue". For this reason, we are removing this metric from the
overload general signal.
See https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/139
for more information.
Fixes#40527
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This avoids performing and then freeing a lot of small mallocs() if
the hash line has too many elements.
Fixes one case of bug 40472; resolves OSS-Fuzz 38363. Bugfix on
0.3.1.1-alpha when the consdiff parsing code was introduced.
Some PT applications support more than one transport. For example,
obfs4proxy supports obfs4, obfs3, and meek. If one or more transports
specified in the torrc file are supported, we shouldn't kill the managed
proxy on a {C,S}METHOD-ERROR. Instead, we should log a warning.
We were already logging warnings on method errors. This change just
makes sure that the managed proxy isn't killed, and then if no
transports are configured for the managed proxy, bumps the log level up
from a notice to a warning.
Closes#7362
When a new consensus method is negotiated, these values will all get
replaced with "2038-01-01 00:00:00".
This change should be safe because:
* As of 0.2.9.11 / 0.3.0.7 / 0.3.1.1-alpha, Tor takes no action
about published_on times in the future.
* The only remaining parties relying on published_on values are (we
believe) relays running 0.3.5.x, which rely on the values in a NS
consensus to see whether their descriptors are out of date. But
this patch only changes microdesc consensuses.
* The latest Tor no longer looks at this field in consensuses.
Why make this change? In experiments, replacing these values with a
fixed value made the size of compressed consensus diffs much much
smaller. (Like, by over 50%!)
Implements proposal 275; Implements #40130.
Nothing breaks here, since all non-voting users of
routerstatus_t.published_on have been adjusted or removed in
previous commits.
We have to expand the API of routerstatus_format_entry() a bit,
though, so that it can always get a published time as argument,
since it can't get it from the routerstatus any more.
This should have no effect on voter behavior.
It used to describe when the old and new routerinfos were published
when we'd decide to download a routerinfo. Now it describes what
their descriptor digests are.
The consensus voters shouldn't actually include such old routers in
the consensus anyway, so this logic shouldn't come up...
but if a client _does_ download something it wouldn't use, it won't
retry infinitely: see checks for WRA_NEVER_DOWNLOADABLE.
Previously we'd look at the routerstatus published_on field when
deciding what to dump, which really has no point. If something's in
the consensus with an ancient published date, then we do want to
keep it.
David Goulet
Nick Mathewson
Tor CI Release
Hans-Christoph Steiner
Alexander Færøy
skaluzka
Cecylia Bocovich