This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Add a Run all probes handler that executes all
probes except those that are continuous or the derpmap
probe.
This is leveraged by other tooling to confirm DERP
stability after a deploy.
Updates tailscale/corp#27370
Signed-off-by: Mike O'Driscoll <mikeo@tailscale.com>
Add mesh key support to derpprobe for
probing derpers with verify set to true.
Move MeshKey checking to central point for code reuse.
Fix a bad error fmt msg.
Fixestailscale/corp#27294Fixestailscale/corp#25756
Signed-off-by: Mike O'Driscoll <mikeo@tailscale.com>
`cmd/derpprobe --once` didn’t respect the convention of non-zero exit
status for a failed run. It would always exit zero (i.e. success),
even. This patch fixes that, but only for `--once` mode.
Fixes: #15925
Signed-off-by: Simon Law <sfllaw@tailscale.com>
Allows the use of tsweb without pulling in all of the heavy prometheus
client libraries, protobuf and so on.
Updates #15160
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@tailscale.com>
This new type of probe sends DERP packets sized similarly to CallMeMaybe packets
at a rate of 10 packets per second. It records the round-trip times in a Prometheus
histogram. It also keeps track of how many packets are dropped. Packets that fail to
arrive within 5 seconds are considered dropped.
Updates tailscale/corp#24522
Signed-off-by: Percy Wegmann <percy@tailscale.com>
For a customer that wants to run their own DERP prober, let's add a
/healthz endpoint that can be used to monitor derpprobe itself.
Updates #6526
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Iba315c999fc0b1a93d8c503c07cc733b4c8d5b6b
To make it easier for people to monitor their custom DERP fleet.
Updates tailscale/corp#20654
Change-Id: Id8af22936a6d893cc7b6186d298ab794a2672524
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This provides an example of using native Prometheus metrics with tsweb.
Prober library seems to be the only user of PrometheusVar, so I am
removing support for it in tsweb.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/10205
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
This allows disabling spread mode, which is helpful if you are manually
running derpprobe in `--once` mode against a small number of DERP
machines.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/9916
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
`prober.DERP` was created in #5988 based on derpprobe. Having used it
instead of derpprobe for a few months, I think we have enough confidence
that it works and can now migrate derpprobe to use the prober framework
and get rid of code duplication.
A few notable changes in behaviour:
- results of STUN probes over IPv4 and IPv6 are now reported separately;
- TLS probing now includes OCSP verification;
- probe names in the output have changed;
- ability to send Slack notification from the prober has been removed.
Instead, the prober now exports metrics in Expvar (/debug/vars) and
Prometheus (/debug/varz) formats.
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8497
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Convert ParseResponse and Response to use netip.AddrPort instead of
net.IP and separate port.
Fixes#5281
Signed-off-by: Kris Brandow <kris.brandow@gmail.com>
There is a Cosmic Background level of DERP Unreachability,
with individual nodes or regions becoming unreachable briefly
and returning a short time later. This is due to hosting provider
outages or just the Internet sloshing about.
Returning a 500 error pages a human. Being awoken at 3am for
a transient error is annoying.
For relatively small levels of badness don't page a human,
just post to Slack. If the outage impacts a significant fraction
of the DERP fleet, then page a human.
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
