The project hasn't seen any new development/changes since 2018 and it
seems unlikely we'd be able to get any changes into the upstream. Since
it's isolated into a single file and its task is fairly straighforward,
pull the code into our own repository and maintain it here as needed.
This also makes it easier to make any changes that are specific to our
project.
This commit ensures that we are not attempting to accept an expired
TCP connection as we are not interested in any data that could have
been accumulated in its internal buffers. Now we just drop them for
good.
When sending fails, the ns__client_request() would not reset the
connection and continue as nothing is happening. This comes from the
model that we don't care about failed UDP sends because datagrams are
unreliable anyway, but it greatly affects TCP connections with
keep-alive.
The worst case scenario is as follows:
1. the 3-way TCP handshake gets completed
2. the libuv calls the "uv_connection_cb" callback
3. the TCP connection gets queue because of the tcp-clients quota
4. the TCP client sends as many DNS messages as the buffers allow
5. the TCP connection gets dropped by the client due to the timeout
6. the TCP connection gets accepted by the server
7. the data already sent by the client gets read
8. all sending fails immediately because the TCP connection is dead
9. we consume all the data in the buffer in a very tight loop
As it doesn't make sense to trying to process more data on the TCP
connection when the sending is failing, drop the connection immediately
on the first sending error.
As ns_query_init() cannot fail now, remove the error paths, especially
in ns__client_setup() where we now don't have to care what to do with
the connection if setting up the client could fail. It couldn't fail
even before, but now it's formal.
Be more aggressive when throttling the reading - when we can't send the
outgoing TCP synchronously with uv_try_write(), we start throttling the
reading immediately instead of waiting for the send buffers to fill up.
This should not affect behaved clients that read the data from the TCP
on the other end.
Instead of outright refusing to add new RR types to the cache, be a bit
smarter:
1. If the new header type is in our priority list, we always add either
positive or negative entry at the beginning of the list.
2. If the new header type is negative entry, and we are over the limit,
we mark it as ancient immediately, so it gets evicted from the cache
as soon as possible.
3. Otherwise add the new header after the priority headers (or at the
head of the list).
4. If we are over the limit, evict the last entry on the normal header
list.
Add HTTPS, SVCB, SRV, PTR, NAPTR, DNSKEY and TXT records to the list of
the priority types that are put at the beginning of the slabheader list
for faster access and to avoid eviction when there are more types than
the max-types-per-name limit.
Due to omission it was possible to un-throttle a TCP connection
previously throttled due to the peer not reading back data we are
sending.
In particular, that affected DoH code, but it could also affect other
transports (the current or future ones) that pause/resume reading
according to its internal state.
Clear qctx->zversion when clearing qctx->zrdataset et al in
lib/ns/query.c:qctx_freedata. The uncleared pointer could lead to
an assertion failure if zone data needed to be re-saved which could
happen with stale data support enabled.
A different solution in the future might be adopted depending
on feedback and other new information, so it makes sense to mark
these options as EXPERIMENTAL until we have more data.
