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>
From LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0, our configure script
would conclude that TLSv1.3 as supported, but it actually wasn't.
This led to annoying breakage like #40128 and #40445.
Now we give an error message if we try to build with one of those
versions.
Closes#40511.
Previously the logic was reversed, and always gave the wrong answer.
This has no other effect than to change whether we suppress
deprecated API warnings.
Fixes#40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
Our code doesn't allow it and so this prevents an assert() crash if the
DirPort is for instance IPv6 only.
Fixes#40494
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
When a directory request fails, we flag the relay as non Running so we
don't use it anymore.
This can be problematic with onion services because there are cases
where a tor instance could have a lot of services, ephemeral ones, and
keeps failing to upload descriptors, let say due to a bad network, and
thus flag a lot of nodes as non Running which then in turn can not be
used for circuit building.
This commit makes it that we never flag nodes as non Running on a onion
service directory request (upload or fetch) failure as to keep the
hashring intact and not affect other parts of tor.
Fortunately, the onion service hashring is _not_ selected by looking at
the Running flag but since we do a 3-hop circuit to the HSDir, other
services on the same instance can influence each other by removing nodes
from the consensus for path selection.
This was made apparent with a small network that ran out of nodes to
used due to rapid succession of onion services uploading and failing.
See #40434 for details.
Fixes#40434
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Tor CI Release
David Goulet
Alexander Færøy
Nick Mathewson