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protobuf
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basic client
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add E_BAD_REQUEST to protobuf
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service implementation
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NAT autodetection
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remove left-over design notes
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don't delete autonat peers on disconnect, just mark them as disconnected
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ea43bf5
we only track autonat peers
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fix autonat peer tracking
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add TODO in service about skipping private network addresses
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add network notifee
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don't try to dial private network addresses
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add localhost to private addr ranges
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no need to select; it's a one shot sync
vyzo May 7, 2018
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typed NATStatus constants
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bump initial autodiscovery delay to 15s
vyzo May 7, 2018
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AutoNATState is AmbientAutoNAT
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variables for background delays
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named magic number incantations
vyzo May 9, 2018
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refactor getPeers for locked scope
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b1733eb
don't throw away read errors; log them.
vyzo May 9, 2018
bb5cad4
simplify autonat client itnerface
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mutex hat
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docstrings and another mutex hat.
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cf04a09
improve docstring for NewAutoNAT
vyzo May 11, 2018
7c097ed
improve NATStatusUknown docstring
vyzo May 11, 2018
5837cc5
fix typo
vyzo May 12, 2018
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update gx deps
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regenerate protobuf
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66ca387
svc: construct dialer host without listen addrs
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accept libp2p options for the dialer constructor in NewAutoNATService
vyzo Sep 8, 2018
3b679e0
make service dialback timeout configurable; useful for tests
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basic service tests
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Makefile and travis build file
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test for ambient autonat functionality
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0fdf1b0
address review comments
vyzo Sep 29, 2018
46d352f
use the protocol list by identify, don't emit chatter on every connec…
vyzo Sep 29, 2018
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add observed address to the dialback set
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91c209c
ensure test hosts are only on loopback
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add /libp2p prefix in protocol string
vyzo Oct 3, 2018
8ea9f1b
configurable throttle for service rate limiter
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d9a0d1a
call AutoNATService.peers something else (reqs)
vyzo Oct 3, 2018
aadb8db
use more peer dial errors for increased confidence in NATPrivate state
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d7f55b0
use more peers if less than 3 are connected
vyzo Oct 4, 2018
852f4e0
adjust AutoNATRetryInterval in autonat tests
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9c8ee52
increase identify delay to 500ms
vyzo Oct 12, 2018
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jenkins file
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add README
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reduce depgraph to just go-libp2p, update to 6.0.19
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Add configurable Identify delay, with default value of 5 secs
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add docstring for confidence
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70 changes: 70 additions & 0 deletions addr.go
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package autonat

import (
"net"

ma "github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr"
)

var private4, private6 []*net.IPNet
var privateCIDR4 = []string{
// localhost
"127.0.0.0/8",
// private networks
"10.0.0.0/8",
"100.64.0.0/10",
"172.16.0.0/12",
"192.168.0.0/16",
// link local
"169.254.0.0/16",
}
var privateCIDR6 = []string{
// localhost
"::1/128",
// ULA reserved
"fc00::/7",
// link local
"fe80::/10",
}

func init() {
private4 = parsePrivateCIDR(privateCIDR4)
private6 = parsePrivateCIDR(privateCIDR6)
}

func parsePrivateCIDR(cidrs []string) []*net.IPNet {
ipnets := make([]*net.IPNet, len(cidrs))
for i, cidr := range cidrs {
_, ipnet, err := net.ParseCIDR(cidr)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
ipnets[i] = ipnet
}
return ipnets
}

func isPublicAddr(a ma.Multiaddr) bool {
ip, err := a.ValueForProtocol(ma.P_IP4)
if err == nil {
return !inAddrRange(ip, private4)
}

ip, err = a.ValueForProtocol(ma.P_IP6)
if err == nil {
return !inAddrRange(ip, private6)
}

return false
}

func inAddrRange(s string, ipnets []*net.IPNet) bool {
ip := net.ParseIP(s)
for _, ipnet := range ipnets {
if ipnet.Contains(ip) {
return true
}
}

return false
}
173 changes: 173 additions & 0 deletions autonat.go
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package autonat

import (
"context"
"errors"
"math/rand"
"sync"
"time"

host "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-host"
peer "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peer"
ma "github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr"
)

// NATStatus is the state of NAT as detected by the ambient service.
type NATStatus int

const (
// NAT status is unknown; this means that the ambient serice has not been

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fixed.

// able to decide the presence of NAT in the most recent attempt to test
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// dial through known autonat peers. initial state.
NATStatusUnknown NATStatus = iota
// NAT status is publicly dialable
NATStatusPublic
// NAT status is private network
NATStatusPrivate
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What about "no nat"? Do we need that state?

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What does that state mean though? We have Uknown and Public -- no nat is equivalent to public.

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Ah, I was thinking:

  • NatStatusPrivate -> Behind a nat and undiablable.
  • NatStatusPublic -> Behind a nat and dialable.

(although we may not need to track the undialable case.

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It's more of "dialable" or not "dialable".
Do we gain anything by knowing that there is no NAT whatsoever?
Note that the inference might be hard to make.

)

var (
AutoNATBootDelay = 15 * time.Second
AutoNATRefreshInterval = 15 * time.Minute

AutoNATRequestTimeout = 60 * time.Second
)

// AutoNAT is the interface for ambient NAT autodiscovery
type AutoNAT interface {
// Status returns the current NAT status
Status() NATStatus
// PublicAddr returns the public dial address when NAT status is public and an
// error otherwise
PublicAddr() (ma.Multiaddr, error)
}

// AmbientAutoNAT is the implementation of ambient NAT autodiscovery
type AmbientAutoNAT struct {
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ctx context.Context
host host.Host

mx sync.Mutex
peers map[peer.ID]struct{}
status NATStatus
addr ma.Multiaddr
}

// NewAutoNAT creates a new ambient NAT autodiscovery instance attached to a host
func NewAutoNAT(ctx context.Context, h host.Host) AutoNAT {
as := &AmbientAutoNAT{
ctx: ctx,
host: h,
peers: make(map[peer.ID]struct{}),
status: NATStatusUnknown,
}

h.Network().Notify(as)
go as.background()

return as
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) Status() NATStatus {
return as.status
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) PublicAddr() (ma.Multiaddr, error) {
as.mx.Lock()
defer as.mx.Unlock()

if as.status != NATStatusPublic {
return nil, errors.New("NAT Status is not public")
}

return as.addr, nil
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) background() {
// wait a bit for the node to come online and establish some connections
// before starting autodetection
time.Sleep(AutoNATBootDelay)
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Not that important but this should probably select in a context and a time.After.

for {
as.autodetect()
select {
case <-time.After(AutoNATRefreshInterval):
case <-as.ctx.Done():
return
}
}
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) autodetect() {
peers := as.getPeers()

if len(peers) == 0 {
log.Debugf("skipping NAT auto detection; no autonat peers")
return
}

cli := NewAutoNATClient(as.host)

for _, p := range peers {
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(as.ctx, AutoNATRequestTimeout)
a, err := cli.Dial(ctx, p)
cancel()

switch {
case err == nil:
log.Debugf("NAT status is public; address through %s: %s", p.Pretty(), a.String())
as.mx.Lock()
as.addr = a
as.status = NATStatusPublic
as.mx.Unlock()
return

case IsDialError(err):
log.Debugf("NAT status is private; dial error through %s: %s", p.Pretty(), err.Error())
as.mx.Lock()
as.status = NATStatusPrivate
as.mx.Unlock()
return

default:
log.Debugf("Error dialing through %s: %s", p.Pretty(), err.Error())
}
}

as.mx.Lock()
as.status = NATStatusUnknown
as.mx.Unlock()
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) getPeers() []peer.ID {
as.mx.Lock()
defer as.mx.Unlock()

if len(as.peers) == 0 {
return nil
}

peers := make([]peer.ID, 0, len(as.peers))
for p := range as.peers {
if len(as.host.Network().ConnsToPeer(p)) > 0 {
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Nit: Network().Connectedness() == inet.Connected avoids allocating.

peers = append(peers, p)
}
}

if len(peers) == 0 {
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I'm afraid this black or white decision could yield erratic results, e.g. if you only have 1 active connection to an autonat peer, we're going to restrict our query to a single peer. I much rather have a minimum threshold we strive for, e.g. 5 peers, for resilience purposes, starting with peers we hold a connection to.

As it is, the autodetect does a round-robin, so no risk of establishing redundant connections if we shuffle the connected and non-connected sublists separately, i.e.

A..G: connected
U..Z: not connected

A B C D E F G || U V W X Y Z
<- shuffle ->   <- shuffle ->

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I am not sure I follow. The code tries to use an already existing connection purely to avoid creating unnecessary new connections.
Do you want to try multiple peers? And each peer multiple times?

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The code tries to use an already existing connection purely to avoid creating unnecessary new connections.

Currently, if we happen to be connected to 1 autonat peer only, we'll restrict ourselves to it. If it fails, we're out of luck. This makes us fragile, especially because we expect scarcity in autonat peers.

What I'm proposing is to target N peers (e.g. 5), preferring connected peers, and falling back to disconnected ones to fill up the slice. To avoid connected and unconnected peers getting mixed up in the shuffle, we keep track of the pivot index and shuffle both sublists separately.

Since autodetect is round-robin, it'll only resort to disconnected peers if the connected ones fail. This makes us more resilient overall.

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That's fine, but do we want to dial more than one peers when we get a DIAL_ERROR?

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That's a good question. I'm not sure I have the answer. Right now we flag NATStatusPrivate on the first dial err, and abort. However, what if that peer is behind some kind of firewall (corporate, geographical, etc.)? Wouldn't it be better to corroborate with more observations?

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I guess we could do a few more tries if we have more known autonat peers, but accept the failure if we don't have enough.
I would arbitrarily go for "3 times is enemy action".

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I guess we could do a few more tries if we have more known autonat peers, but accept the failure if we don't have enough.

Yep. If we don't have enough, we'd defer to the next iteration. If by then we've found more autonat peers, with this new logic we'll query them even if not connected, and hence have a chance to improve our connectivity.

I would arbitrarily go for "3 times is enemy action".

We detect "enemy action" on the receiving side through the throttling, no? (3 is fine for that)

That makes me realise that we should probably move peers who have sent us E_DIAL_REFUSED or E_INTERNAL_ERROR to a blacklist, to avoid dwelling on them, and to be well-behaved.

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That's probably too much complexity for marginal improvement :)

Also, I think I want some slightly more clever strategy for making multiple dial attempts -- if our nat status was unknown or public, then try 3 times.
If it was private, then a single failure should be enough to convince us.

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Implemented the "3 times is enemy action" strategy in aadb8db, with memory of past failures so that it stops asking multiple peers once it has enough confidence we are NATed.

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In d7f55b0 we ensure that we have at least 3 autonat peers in the candidate set, even when we are connected to less than that.
This uses the strategy you suggested for ordering.

// we don't have any open connections, try any autonat peer that we know about
for p := range as.peers {
peers = append(peers, p)
}
}

shufflePeers(peers)

return peers
}

func shufflePeers(peers []peer.ID) {
for i := range peers {
j := rand.Intn(i + 1)
peers[i], peers[j] = peers[j], peers[i]
}
}
97 changes: 97 additions & 0 deletions client.go
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package autonat

import (
"context"
"fmt"

pb "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-autonat/pb"

ggio "github.com/gogo/protobuf/io"
host "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-host"
inet "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-net"
peer "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peer"
pstore "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peerstore"
ma "github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr"
)

// AutoNATClient is a stateless client interface to AutoNAT peers
type AutoNATClient interface {
// Dial requests from a peer providing AutoNAT services to test dial back
Dial(ctx context.Context, p peer.ID) (ma.Multiaddr, error)
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Can we call this something else? When I see "Dial" I think "establish a connection". When I saw this function used in the code, I had absolutely no idea why dialing a peer would tell us anything about our NAT status.

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Ok, will rename.

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Called it DialBack.

}

// AutoNATError is the class of errors signalled by AutoNAT services
type AutoNATError struct {
Status pb.Message_ResponseStatus
Text string
}

// NewAutoNATClient creates a fresh instance of an AutoNATClient
func NewAutoNATClient(h host.Host) AutoNATClient {
return &client{h: h}
}

type client struct {
h host.Host
}

func (c *client) Dial(ctx context.Context, p peer.ID) (ma.Multiaddr, error) {
s, err := c.h.NewStream(ctx, p, AutoNATProto)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer s.Close()

r := ggio.NewDelimitedReader(s, inet.MessageSizeMax)
w := ggio.NewDelimitedWriter(s)

req := newDialMessage(pstore.PeerInfo{ID: c.h.ID(), Addrs: c.h.Addrs()})
err = w.WriteMsg(req)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

var res pb.Message
err = r.ReadMsg(&res)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

if res.GetType() != pb.Message_DIAL_RESPONSE {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unexpected response: %s", res.GetType().String())
}

status := res.GetDialResponse().GetStatus()
switch status {
case pb.Message_OK:
addr := res.GetDialResponse().GetAddr()
return ma.NewMultiaddrBytes(addr)

default:
return nil, AutoNATError{Status: status, Text: res.GetDialResponse().GetStatusText()}
}
}

func (e AutoNATError) Error() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("AutoNAT error: %s (%s)", e.Text, e.Status.String())
}

func (e AutoNATError) IsDialError() bool {
return e.Status == pb.Message_E_DIAL_ERROR
}

func (e AutoNATError) IsDialRefused() bool {
return e.Status == pb.Message_E_DIAL_REFUSED
}

// IsDialError returns true if the AutoNAT peer signalled an error dialing back
func IsDialError(e error) bool {
ae, ok := e.(AutoNATError)
return ok && ae.IsDialError()
}

// IsDialRefused returns true if the AutoNAT peer signalled refusal to dial back
func IsDialRefused(e error) bool {
ae, ok := e.(AutoNATError)
return ok && ae.IsDialRefused()
}
31 changes: 31 additions & 0 deletions notify.go
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package autonat

import (
inet "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-net"
peer "github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peer"
ma "github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr"
)

var _ inet.Notifiee = (*AmbientAutoNAT)(nil)

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) Listen(net inet.Network, a ma.Multiaddr) {}
func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) ListenClose(net inet.Network, a ma.Multiaddr) {}
func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) OpenedStream(net inet.Network, s inet.Stream) {}
func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) ClosedStream(net inet.Network, s inet.Stream) {}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) Connected(net inet.Network, c inet.Conn) {
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So, we really don't need a large set of peers that support this protocol. Instead of testing every one, How about we:

a. Keep a list of known autonat peers (discovered as we try to use them, not when we first connect).
b. Keep a list of known non-autonat peers.

Then, periodically*, we can:

  1. Try every connected peer in the known good set.
  2. Try every open connection not in the bad set, adding peers to the good set and bad set as we try them.

That way we aren't unnecessarily noisy.

*later, we can get even fancier and set the period to be "time since last inbound connection from a public address", or something like that.

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I think we can reduce the noise by simply checking on the protocols reported by identify.

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I changed it to look at the protocols reported by identify through the peerstore in 46d352f
I don't quite like the delay for identify, but it seems to be necessary.

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I don't quite like the delay for identify, but it seems to be necessary.

Yeah... that annoys me to me to no end as well.

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Identify keeps the stream open after identification. If we made it close the stream, we could hook onto the ClosedStream event to know when identify was over deterministically.

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Let's really not. I know it should work, but that's just horrible.

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It is, but that's all we have now 😅

Should we think about setting up some kind of "in-mem event bus" so that different layers of libp2p can emit and react to events? Identify would then emit a protocols:identify/1.0.0:complete event when it finished, or a ...:error one if it failed.

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Yeah... Ideally services would just hook into identify (or the peerstore? that doesn't seem right) and get called when we connect to a peer supporting protocol X.

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Made the delay configurable, with an initial value of 5 sec (per @magik6k's suggestion)

go func(p peer.ID) {
s, err := as.host.NewStream(as.ctx, p, AutoNATProto)
if err != nil {
return
}
s.Close()

log.Infof("Discovered AutoNAT peer %s", p.Pretty())
as.mx.Lock()
as.peers[p] = struct{}{}
as.mx.Unlock()
}(c.RemotePeer())
}

func (as *AmbientAutoNAT) Disconnected(net inet.Network, c inet.Conn) {}
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