This fix puts an end to a saga that essentially start during the
Status Prague Meetup at the end of October 2018. At the time we were
experiencing massive issues with `Connecting...` spinners in the app in the
venue we rented. We were pulling our hairs out what to do and we could not
find the cause of the issue at the time.
Three months later I deployed the following change:
https://github.com/status-im/infra-eth-cluster/commit/63a13eed
Which used `iptables` to map the `443` port onto our `30504` Status node port
using `PREROUTING` chain and `REDIRECT` jump in order to fix issues people
have been complaining about when using WiFi networks in various venues:
https://github.com/status-im/status-react/issues/6351
Our thinking when trying to resolve the reported issue assumed that some
networks might block outgoing connections on non-standard ports other than
the usual `80`(HTTP)/`443`(HTTPS) which would disrupt Status connectivity.
While this fix could have indeed helped a few edge cases, what it really
did was cause the Status node to stop seeing actual public IPs of the clients.
But __pure accident__ this change caused the code we inherited from
`go-ethereum` implementation of DevP2P protocol to stop throttling new
incoming connections, because the IP as which they appeared was a
`172.16.0.0/12` network address of the Docker bridge.
The `go-ethereum` code used the `!netutil.IsLAN(remoteIP)` check to
avoid throttling connections from local addresses, which included the
local Docker bridge address:
https://github.com/status-im/status-go/blob/82680830/vendor/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/p2p/netutil/net.go#L36
The fix intended to target a small number of networks with fortified
firewall configuration accidentally resolved our issues with
`Connecting...` prompts that our application showed us en masse during
our Prauge Meetup. Part of the reason for that is that venues like that
normally give out local IP addresses and use NAT to translate them onto
the only public IP address they possess.
Since out application is supposed to be usable from within networks
behind NAT like airport WiFi networks for example, it makes no sense to
keep the inbound connection throttle time implemented in `go-ethereum`.
I'm leaving `inboundThrottleTime` in because it's used to calculate
value for `dialHistoryExpiration` in:
`vendor/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/p2p/dial.go`
I believe reducing that value one we deploy this change should also
increase the speed with which the Status application is able to reconnect
to a node that was temporarily unavailable, instead waiting the 5*30 seconds.
Research issue: https://github.com/status-im/infra-eth-cluster/issues/35
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <jakub@status.im>
* add multiaccount support
add multi account ImportPrivateKey and StoreAccount
test derivation from normal keys
* add multiaccount to mobile pkg
* use multiaccount params structs from the mobile pkg
* move multiaccount tests together with the other lib tests
* fix codeclimate warning and temporarily increase methods threshold
* split library_test_utils.go to avoid linter warnings
This commit updates geth to 1.8.17 and adds a possibility to enable metrics during compilation time.
The cascade of issues forced us to upgrade geth to 1.8.17 in order to allow enabling metrics during compilation time. 1.8.17 introduced `NodeID` refactoring and `enode` package which affected our peers pool and integration with Discovery V5.
* Update to geth v1.8.14
* Remove patches that were merged upstream
* Apply patches before 0016
* Fix 0016 and apply it
* Apply everything else
* Pass gas limit as a second argument to simulated backend
- Replace deprecated common.Hex with hexutil.Encode.
- Remove upstreamed 0010-geth-17-fix-npe-in-filter-system.patch.
- Remove upstreamed 0020-discv5-metrics.patch.
- Remove upstreamed 0026-ethdb-error-deadlock.patch.
- Update goleveldb to same version used by geth 1.8.11.
- Update PublicTransactionPoolAPI.GasPrice return type to match type in internal geth interface.
Other changes:
* needed to patch that loop implementation in Discover V5 implementation in go-ethereum,
* fixed TestStatusNodeReconnectStaticPeers,
* fixed TestBackendAccountsConcurrently.
This change makes invalidation mechanism more aggressive. With a primary goal to invalidate short living nodes faster. In current setup any node that became known in terms of discovery will stay in this state until it will fail to respond to 5 queries. Removing them earlier from a table allows to reduce latency for finding required nodes.
The second change, one adds a version for discovery, separates status dht from ethereum dht.
After we rolled out discovery it became obvious that our boot nodes became spammed with irrelevant nodes. And this made discovery process very long, for example with separate dht discovery takes ~2s, with mutual dht - it can take 1m-10m and there is still no guarantee to find a max amount of peers, cause status nodes is a very small part of whole ethereum infra.
In my understanding, we don't need to be a part of ethereum dht, and lower latency is way more important for us.
Closes: #941
Partially closes: #960 (960 requires futher investigations on devices)
* Rebase on 1.8.5
* Remove outdated patches and apply all others
* Use shh_post that returns hash
* Use bloom filter for request to mailserver
* Remove tests for sending messages without subbing first
* Fix deadlock in ethdb
* Expect null if receipt is not yet created
* Subscribe to messages before sending them in whisper test
* Update `github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum` package to 1.8.1 branch. Part of #638
* Fix code due to some signature changes. Part of #638
* use upstream for whisper backend
* Add patch to downgrade usage of Whisper v6 to v5 in some geth 1.8.1 vendor files. Part of #638
* Take into account the DNS rebinding protection introduced in 1.8.0 by adding exception for localhost. Part of #638
* Add patches required for cross-compiled builds starting with geth 1.8.0. Only applied during build. Part of #638
* Update expected JSON result in `TestRegressionGetTransactionReceipt()` and `TestCallRawResultGetTransactionReceipt()`. Part of #665
* Fix some failing e2e tests. Part of #638
* Address comments in PR #702. Part of #638
* static: updates Whisper test (to work with Geth 1.6.1)
* jail: VM persistence implemented
* jail: sendMessage/showSuggestions minor fixes (to be squashed)
* node: CHT and boot nodes auto-load implemented
* Replaced CHT data file from farazdagi's to tiabc's
* Rewrote config_test.go using testify having reduced it twice in size
* Increased SyncTime and panic timeout in tests
* Fixed test - remove go default test to testify/suite (#207)
* Add flag setup for RPCEnabled and add comment (#225)
* jail: register method handlers before running initial js in jail (#226)
* Console Jail Mod #179 (#228)
* Added ./statusd-data into .gitignore
* Increased log level for the test node from INFO to ERROR
* Add call to loop.Run to evaluate all setTimeout/setIntervals methods. (#208)
* Rebase onto geth1.6.7 (#232)
* Got back sync duration from 60s to 30s, updated bindata.go
Jakub Sokołowski
Adam Babik
Andrea Franz
Adam Babik
Dmitry
Adam Babik
Pedro Pombeiro
Ivan Daniluk
Ivan Tomilov
Victor Farazdagi
Jarrad Hope
Daniel Whitenack