Keep a scan out of route-proxy's unrouted state: only names under a served domain, a few a minute, no visitor address (issue 774)
mesh/delivery merged: source.main moved to novox/mesh-controller@159db37618c2
mesh/check being carried to b7c3868980f3 on 159db37618c2 | from a4426190b0c7

Review of ddae6729: a scanner's random Host or SNI names each became a key, bounded only by the
bucket's lifetime and size, and every failed write was retried at each change and logged each time.

A refused name is now kept by name only under the registrable domain of a name the proxy serves, and
at most five new names a minute; every other refusal is counted in memory and written once a minute
under <node>._other (last minute, since start), which route_proxy_unrouted shows. A refused write of
that state is dropped and logged once until a write succeeds; trimming memory to 4096 names moved
from the request to the writer. The visitor's address is no longer kept: the journal has it.

Quick: drop unrouted keys from strangers by a fixed allow-list. Thorough: bound by the proxy's own
domains, by rate, and by never retrying. Chose thorough: the scan is constant on a public machine.
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2026-10-30 23:03:00 +01:00
parent ddae6729c1
commit b7c3868980
7 changed files with 245 additions and 54 deletions
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
package routestate
import (
"net"
"regexp"
"strings"
"time"
@@ -95,9 +96,9 @@ type Route struct {
type Unrouted struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
Proxy string `json:"proxy"`
// AskedAt is when the name was last asked for; From is who asked last.
// AskedAt is when the name was last asked for. Who asked is not kept here: the journal keeps it, for the
// machine's intrusion prevention.
AskedAt time.Time `json:"asked_at"`
From string `json:"from,omitempty"`
// Times is how often it was asked since the proxy last started.
Times int `json:"times"`
// InternalOnly says the name is served, but only inside the private network, and was asked from outside.
@@ -106,6 +107,34 @@ type Unrouted struct {
Handshake bool `json:"handshake,omitempty"`
}
// OtherName is the name of the one key per proxy that counts the refusals not kept by name: names under no domain
// the proxy serves (what a scan sends), and names past the limit of new names a minute. Its key is
// `<node>._other`; no host name begins with an underscore.
const OtherName = "_other"
// Other is the value of a proxy's OtherName key.
type Other struct {
Proxy string `json:"proxy"`
// Minute is the last whole minute counted, and LastMinute how many refusals it held.
Minute time.Time `json:"minute"`
LastMinute int `json:"last_minute"`
// SinceStart is every refusal not kept by name since the proxy started.
SinceStart int `json:"since_start"`
}
// Registrable is the domain a name is registered under, as its last two labels; "" for an address or a single
// label. Two labels is wrong for a public suffix of two (co.uk); it only decides which refused names are kept by name.
func Registrable(name string) string {
if net.ParseIP(strings.Trim(name, "[]")) != nil {
return ""
}
labels := strings.Split(name, ".")
if len(labels) < 2 {
return ""
}
return strings.Join(labels[len(labels)-2:], ".")
}
var keyable = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9_]([a-z0-9_.-]{0,251}[a-z0-9_])?$`)
// Keyable says whether a name can be a key's name: what a host name or an address is. A name asked for in a request