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Thomas Eizinger 03ac73ac00 fix(gateway): reset DNS resource NAT if proxy IPs change (#10310)
In #10040, we decided to persist a peer's routing state on the Gateway
across ICE sessions. This routing state also includes the DNS resource
NAT.

Prior to #10104 (which is not released yet), when a Client signs out and
back in, it resets the proxy IP mapping for DNS resources and will start
numbering them again from the front, i.e. starting from 100.96.0.1. With
the state still being preserved on the Gateway, this represents a
problem: We keep existing mappings around if there is still a NAT
session for this proxy IP. However, if the proxy IP is actually for a
different domain, this NAT session is meaningless. In fact, not
replacing the IP is problematic as we will now route packets for the new
proxy IP to the wrong destination.

The persistent DNS resource mapping from #10104 fixes this. In this PR,
we add an additional check to the Gateway where we detect whether the
Client has started to re-assign proxy IPs and if so, we completely reset
the DNS resource NAT state including all existing NAT sessions.

Fixes #10268
2025-09-09 02:08:26 +00:00
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2023-05-10 07:58:32 -07:00

Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.