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commit 7ce17c2b008dee04b209ac698e7a380eae63987e Author: David Goulet dgoulet@torproject.org AuthorDate: Tue Mar 15 15:33:35 2022 -0400
relay: Reconfigure libevent options only on DNS params change
Related #40312
Signed-off-by: David Goulet dgoulet@torproject.org --- src/feature/relay/dns.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/feature/relay/dns.c b/src/feature/relay/dns.c index 8467b9c0a4..0af80d52ae 100644 --- a/src/feature/relay/dns.c +++ b/src/feature/relay/dns.c @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ static int answer_is_wildcarded(const char *ip); static int evdns_err_is_transient(int err); static void inform_pending_connections(cached_resolve_t *resolve); static void make_pending_resolve_cached(cached_resolve_t *cached); +static void configure_libevent_options(void);
#ifdef DEBUG_DNS_CACHE static void assert_cache_ok_(void); @@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ dns_new_consensus_params(const networkstatus_t *ns) /* Consensus has parameters for the Exit relay DNS side and so we only reset * the DNS nameservers if we are in server mode. */ if (server_mode(get_options())) { - dns_reset(); + configure_libevent_options(); } }
@@ -1415,6 +1416,60 @@ get_consensus_param_exit_dns_attempts(void) return str; }
+/** Configure the libevent options. This can be called after initialization. + * This should never be called without the evdns base pointer initialized. */ +static void +configure_libevent_options(void) +{ + if (BUG(!the_evdns_base)) { + return; + } + +#define SET(k,v) evdns_base_set_option(the_evdns_base, (k), (v)) + + // If we only have one nameserver, it does not make sense to back off + // from it for a timeout. Unfortunately, the value for max-timeouts is + // currently clamped by libevent to 255, but it does not hurt to set + // it higher in case libevent gets a patch for this. Higher-than- + // default maximum of 3 with multiple nameservers to avoid spuriously + // marking one down on bursts of timeouts resulting from scans/attacks + // against non-responding authoritative DNS servers. + if (evdns_base_count_nameservers(the_evdns_base) == 1) { + SET("max-timeouts:", "1000000"); + } else { + SET("max-timeouts:", "10"); + } + + // Elongate the queue of maximum inflight dns requests, so if a bunch + // remain pending at the resolver (happens commonly with Unbound) we won't + // stall every other DNS request. This potentially means some wasted + // CPU as there's a walk over a linear queue involved, but this is a + // much better tradeoff compared to just failing DNS requests because + // of a full queue. + SET("max-inflight:", "8192"); + + /* Set timeout to be 1 second. This tells libevent that it shouldn't wait + * more than N second to drop a DNS query and consider it "timed out". It is + * very important to differentiate here a libevent timeout and a DNS server + * timeout. And so, by setting this to N second, libevent sends back + * "DNS_ERR_TIMEOUT" if that N second is reached which does NOT indicate that + * the query itself timed out in transit. */ + SET("timeout:", get_consensus_param_exit_dns_timeout()); + + /* This tells libevent to attemps up to X times a DNS query if the previous + * one failed to complete within N second. We believe that this should be + * enough to catch temporary hiccups on the first query. But after that, it + * should signal us that it won't be able to resolve it. */ + SET("attempts:", get_consensus_param_exit_dns_attempts()); + + if (get_options()->ServerDNSRandomizeCase) + SET("randomize-case:", "1"); + else + SET("randomize-case:", "0"); + +#undef SET +} + /** Configure eventdns nameservers if force is true, or if the configuration * has changed since the last time we called this function, or if we failed on * our last attempt. On Unix, this reads from /etc/resolv.conf or @@ -1528,50 +1583,10 @@ configure_nameservers(int force) } #endif /* defined(_WIN32) */
-#define SET(k,v) evdns_base_set_option(the_evdns_base, (k), (v)) - - // If we only have one nameserver, it does not make sense to back off - // from it for a timeout. Unfortunately, the value for max-timeouts is - // currently clamped by libevent to 255, but it does not hurt to set - // it higher in case libevent gets a patch for this. Higher-than- - // default maximum of 3 with multiple nameservers to avoid spuriously - // marking one down on bursts of timeouts resulting from scans/attacks - // against non-responding authoritative DNS servers. - if (evdns_base_count_nameservers(the_evdns_base) == 1) { - SET("max-timeouts:", "1000000"); - } else { - SET("max-timeouts:", "10"); - } - - // Elongate the queue of maximum inflight dns requests, so if a bunch - // remain pending at the resolver (happens commonly with Unbound) we won't - // stall every other DNS request. This potentially means some wasted - // CPU as there's a walk over a linear queue involved, but this is a - // much better tradeoff compared to just failing DNS requests because - // of a full queue. - SET("max-inflight:", "8192"); - - /* Set timeout to be 1 second. This tells libevent that it shouldn't wait - * more than N second to drop a DNS query and consider it "timed out". It is - * very important to differentiate here a libevent timeout and a DNS server - * timeout. And so, by setting this to N second, libevent sends back - * "DNS_ERR_TIMEOUT" if that N second is reached which does NOT indicate that - * the query itself timed out in transit. */ - SET("timeout:", get_consensus_param_exit_dns_timeout()); - - /* This tells libevent to attemps up to X times a DNS query if the previous - * one failed to complete within N second. We believe that this should be - * enough to catch temporary hiccups on the first query. But after that, it - * should signal us that it won't be able to resolve it. */ - SET("attempts:", get_consensus_param_exit_dns_attempts()); - - if (options->ServerDNSRandomizeCase) - SET("randomize-case:", "1"); - else - SET("randomize-case:", "0"); - -#undef SET + /* Setup libevent options. */ + configure_libevent_options();
+ /* Relaunch periodical DNS check event. */ dns_servers_relaunch_checks();
nameservers_configured = 1;