1. Adds a user-agent string to the node announcement. This lets us keep
track of what software version everyone is running. Especially useful
to see what percentage of the network has upgraded to a new release.
For old nodes, this defaults to the string `/radicle/`.
The user agent format is roughly based on BIP 0014.
2. Advertize protocol version in node announcement.
By advertizing the protocol version, nodes can decide to only connect to
peers with a compatible version. The default and current version is `1`.
We bundle these two changes as they both modify the node announcement
and node database.
3. Swap the order of the fields in announcements to make the message
extensible.
This prevents potential memory leaks. We also ensure that sends fail
instead of blocking, in case the channels are full.
Additionally, we add some metrics to report on channel size.
Previously, our advertized inventory was not always correct: when we
stopped seeding a repository, it was still advertised as part of our
inventory until node restart, because the `Storage` type doesn't have
access to seeding policies.
In this change, we remove the concept of inventory from `Storage` and
make the authoritative place for it the routing table in our database.
To make this work, we have to add our node to the database on profile
creation, to not violate the foreign key constraint on the routing
table. Hence, the tests are changed to include our alias which is now
always available.
This is a change to the `config.json` file which removes certain options
that are best not touched and changes some options to make them easier
to work with.
1. We change the default journaling mode to "wal" and remove the config
option.
2. We remove the option to set the peer connection "target", as it's not
a good idea to set this to a different value, as it affects the
network.
3. We combine seeding policy & scope, since there's no need to set the
scope when the policy is "block". In that case, we always want to
block "all" remotes. The new policy configuration has the following
schema:
{ seedingPolicy: { default: "block" | "allow", scope?: "all" | "followed" } }
The "scope" key is not used when "default" is set to "block".
4. We add an `extra` field to the node config for options that are not
recognized. We use this to warn the user.
We use the *staggered broadcast* technique when relaying gossip messages
to reduce message amplification. In our basic simulation, it brings
amplification down from 3.5 to 1.5.
The idea is simply to accumulate gossip messages and relay them after a fixed
interval of time. This has two effects:
1) Old messages that haven't been sent yet are replaced by newer ones,
so only one message is sent after the delay.
2) Because nodes have their own intervals, messages are not all sent at
the same time, which reduces the chance of messages crossing paths.
For now we only turn this on for inventory messages, since this is the
least likely to be noticed by users, and also the most problematic
currently.
In the case of an out-of-sync local node, we were showing the wrong tip.
Additionally, mark your tip as unannounced if it isn't announced. This
isn't fool-proof, but can be useful to debug certain issues.
From empirical testing, the `FETCH_TIMEOUT` can be set to a lower value of 3s.
For a repository that is about 300MiB, the process will successfully send all
packfile bytes and the references will be written.
The `--timeout` option is also used in the `git-upload-pack` process for good
measure.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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* Remove `rad sync --force` flag
* Remove `rad clone --private` flag
These flags are no longer necessary. Simplify specifying which seed
to fetch from with `--seed` is enough.
*Breaking change* The `tor` configuration field is no longer
supported. Users must remove that field from their config.
Allows for a mixed mode, where regular addresses bypass the Tor proxy,
while onion addresses go through it.
When `onion.mode` is set to "forward", Tor connections are fowarded to
the global proxy, and if it isn't set, to the OS's DNS resolution.
For mixed mode, a global proxy simply isn't set, so that IP/DNS is not
proxied.
The previous banning implementation didn't work, since it included port
numbers in the address value.
Here, we keep a separate table with (node, ip) pairs and update this
table when a node connects or is banned.
After empirically testing HardenedBSD[[0]], which has a total blob size of
42GiB, and its largest checkout is 1.26GiB (using `git-sizer`[[1]]), it was
found that letting the background process fetch the repository with a timeout of
1 hour is enough (a very generous estimate).
This deemed sufficient, since cases smaller than this will report back that they
are done before this time. For cases larger than this, more research will be
needed.
[0]: https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/HardenedBSD
[1]: https://github.com/github/git-sizer
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Emit the `UploadPack` events from the `upload_pack` method.
A wrapper type, `Reporter`, is introduced for implementing a `Write` instance
that will parse the given bytes as `gix_protocol::RemoteProgress`, if possible,
and emit it via the `Emitter`, and then write the bytes to the underlying
writer. This allows any subscribers to see the progress of an upload-pack, i.e.
`Compressing objects`, `Counting object`, `Enumerating objects`.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Instead of using `DEFAULT_CHANNEL_TIMEOUT`, the timeout is dynamically set
per-fetch by the caller.
This passed via the `Io::Fetch` variant -- when initiating a fetch, and the
`Control::Open` variant when responding to a fetch.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Instead of resetting the number of attempts on connection, reset it when
the connection is stable, ie. after some time has passed.
This prevents connection retries from happening in succession when a
peer is disconnected during the initial handshake, as is the case with
invalid subscribe timestamps.
If our inventory hasn't updated, don't issue a new inventory
announcement, simply use the previous message.
This avoids identical inventories propagating over the network and using
up resources.
Relay now has three values: "always", "never" and "auto".
The first two operate like the previous `true`/`false`. The
new (default) value turns relaying on for nodes with public (external)
addresses and off for nodes without. This should reduce redundant traffic on
the network, that was causing the rate limiters to trigger.
Many (most?) system clocks are not monotonic, and even though we're
getting a `LocalTime`, which *is* monotonic when using `now()`, it is
constructed from a `SystemTime` which isn't.
There are rare cases where ref announcements may be sent in close
succession, and the current clock time is re-used. This will cause the
second (newer) announcement to be ignored by peers.
We add a `timestamp` method that checks if the timestamp is re-used, and
increments it if so, ensuring that we always use a fresh one.
Since a user can force a fetch of a private repository without any
announcement being involved, we update the routing table if the fetch
completes successfully, with the remote node.
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Alexis Sellier
Fintan Halpenny