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DNS resolution is a critical part of `connlib`. If it is slow for whatever reason, users will notice this. To make sure we notice as well, we add `telemetry` spans to the client's and gateway's DNS resolution. For the client, this applies to all DNS queries that we forward to the upstream servers. For the gateway, this applies to all DNS resources. In addition to those IO operations, we also instrument the `match_resource_linear` function. This function operates in `O(n)` of all defined DNS resources. It _should_ be fast enough to not create an impact but it can't hurt to measure this regardless. Lastly, we also instrument `refresh_translations` on the gateway. Refreshing the DNS resolution of a DNS resource should really only happen, when the previous IP addresses become stale yet the user is still trying to send traffic to them. We don't actually have any data on how often that happens. By instrumenting it, we can gather some of this data. To make sure that none of these telemetry events and spans hurt the end-user performance, we introduce macros to `firezone-logging` that sample the creation of these events and spans at a rate of 1%. I ran a flamegraph and none of these even showed up. The most critical one here is probably the `match_resource_linear` span because it happens on every DNS query. Resolves: #7198. --------- Signed-off-by: Thomas Eizinger <thomas@eizinger.io>
gateway
This crate houses the Firezone gateway.
Building
You can build the gateway using: cargo build --release --bin firezone-gateway
You should then find a binary in target/release/firezone-gateway.
Running
The Firezone Gateway supports Linux only. To run the Gateway binary on your Linux host:
- Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
- Ensure the
FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token>environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - Set
FIREZONE_IDto a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g.export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The Gateway requires this variable at startup. - Now, you can start the Gateway with:
firezone-gateway
If you're running as a non-root user, you'll need the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
to open /dev/net/tun. You can add this to the gateway binary with:
sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin+eip' /path/to/firezone-gateway
Ports
The gateway requires no open ports. Connections automatically traverse NAT with STUN/TURN via the relay.