A node_t is an abstraction over routerstatus_t, routerinfo_t, and
microdesc_t. It should try to present a consistent interface to all
of them. There should be a node_t for a server whenever there is
* A routerinfo_t for it in the routerlist
* A routerstatus_t in the current_consensus.
(note that a microdesc_t alone isn't enough to make a node_t exist,
since microdescriptors aren't usable on their own.)
There are three ways to get a node_t right now: looking it up by ID,
looking it up by nickname, and iterating over the whole list of
microdescriptors.
All (or nearly all) functions that are supposed to return "a router"
-- especially those used in building connections and circuits --
should return a node_t, not a routerinfo_t or a routerstatus_t.
A node_t should hold all the *mutable* flags about a node. This
patch moves the is_foo flags from routerinfo_t into node_t. The
flags in routerstatus_t remain, but they get set from the consensus
and should not change.
Some other highlights of this patch are:
* Looking up routerinfo and routerstatus by nickname is now
unified and based on the "look up a node by nickname" function.
This tries to look only at the values from current consensus,
and not get confused by the routerinfo_t->is_named flag, which
could get set for other weird reasons. This changes the
behavior of how authorities (when acting as clients) deal with
nodes that have been listed by nickname.
* I tried not to artificially increase the size of the diff here
by moving functions around. As a result, some functions that
now operate on nodes are now in the wrong file -- they should
get moved to nodelist.c once this refactoring settles down.
This moving should happen as part of a patch that moves
functions AND NOTHING ELSE.
* Some old code is now left around inside #if 0/1 blocks, and
should get removed once I've verified that I don't want it
sitting around to see how we used to do things.
There are still some unimplemented functions: these are flagged
with "UNIMPLEMENTED_NODELIST()." I'll work on filling in the
implementation here, piece by piece.
I wish this patch could have been smaller, but there did not seem to
be any piece of it that was independent from the rest. Moving flags
forces many functions that once returned routerinfo_t * to return
node_t *, which forces their friends to change, and so on.
- Move checks for extra_info to callers
- Change argument name from failed to descs
- Use strlen("fp/") instead of a magic number
- I passed on the suggestion to rename functions from *_failed() to
*_handle_failure(). There are a lot of these so for now just follow
the house style.
It's normal when bootstrapping to have a lot of different certs
missing, so we don't want missing certs to make us warn... unless
the certs we're missing are ones that we've tried to fetch a couple
of times and failed at.
May fix bug 1145.
requests to authorities fail due to a network error.
Bug#1138
"When a Tor client starts up using a bridge, and UpdateBridgesFromAuthority
is set, Tor will go to the authority first and look up the bridge by
fingerprint. If the bridge authority is filtered, Tor will never notice that
the bridge authority lookup failed. So it will never fall back."
Add connection_dir_bridge_routerdesc_failed(), a function for unpacking
the bridge information from a failed request, and ensure
connection_dir_request_failed() calls it if the failed request
was for a bridge descriptor.
Test:
1. for ip in `grep -iR 'router ' cached-descriptors|cut -d ' ' -f 3`;
do sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d $ip -j DROP; done
2. remove all files from user tor directory
3. Put the following in torrc:
UseBridges 1
UpdateBridgesFromAuthority 1
Bridge 85.108.88.19:443 7E1B28DB47C175392A0E8E4A287C7CB8686575B7
4. Launch tor - it should fall back to downloading descriptors
directly from the bridge.
Initial patch reviewed and corrected by mingw-san.
This was freaking out some relay operators without good reason, as
it is nothing the relay operator can do anything about anyways.
Quieting this warning suggested by rieo.
Before it would prepend your requested entrynodes to your list of guard
nodes, but feel free to use others after that. Now it chooses only
from your EntryNodes if any of those are available, and only falls back
to others if a) they're all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
Also, now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNode at each consensus
fetch (rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as the
network changes).
The goal here is to make users less likely to set StrictNodes, since
it's doing closer to what they expect it should be doing.
The HSAuthorityRecordStats option was used to track statistics of overall
hidden service usage on the version 0 hidden service authorities. With the
version 2 hidden service directories being deployed and version 0
descriptors being phased out, these statistics are not as useful anymore.
Goodbye, you fine piece of software; my first major code contribution to
Tor.
