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Thomas Eizinger 3d6ed6dde7 refactor(connlib): respond with SERVFAIL on resolver error (#7067)
Currently, any failure in the `StubResolver` while processing a query
results only in a log but no response. For UDP DNS queries, that isn't
too bad because the client will simply retry. With the upcoming support
for TCP DNS queries in #6944, we should really always reply with a
message.

This PR refactors the handling of DNS messages to always generate a
reply. In the case of an error, we reply with SERVFAIL.

This opens up a few more refactorings where we can now collapse the
handling of some branches into the same. As part of that, I noticed the
recurring need for "unwrapping" a `Result<(), E>` and logging the error.
To make that easier, I introduced an extension trait that does exactly
that.
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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 bench profile.
  2. sudo perf 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.