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>
Now cmd/derper doesn't depend on iptables, nftables, and netlink code :)
But this is really just a cleanup step I noticed on the way to making
tsnet applications able to not link all the OS router code which they
don't use.
Updates #17313
Change-Id: Ic7b4e04e3a9639fd198e9dbeb0f7bae22a4a47a9
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The AddSNATRuleForDst rule was adding a new rule each time it was called including:
- if a rule already existed
- if a rule matching the destination, but with different desired source already existed
This was causing issues especially for the in-progress egress HA proxies work,
where the rules are now refreshed more frequently, so more redundant rules
were being created.
This change:
- only creates the rule if it doesn't already exist
- if a rule for the same dst, but different source is found, delete it
- also ensures that egress proxies refresh firewall rules
if the node's tailnet IP changes
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13406
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
* cmd/containerboot,kube,util/linuxfw: configure kube egress proxies to route to 1+ tailnet targets
This commit is first part of the work to allow running multiple
replicas of the Kubernetes operator egress proxies per tailnet service +
to allow exposing multiple tailnet services via each proxy replica.
This expands the existing iptables/nftables-based proxy configuration
mechanism.
A proxy can now be configured to route to one or more tailnet targets
via a (mounted) config file that, for each tailnet target, specifies:
- the target's tailnet IP or FQDN
- mappings of container ports to which cluster workloads will send traffic to
tailnet target ports where the traffic should be forwarded.
Example configfile contents:
{
"some-svc": {"tailnetTarget":{"fqdn":"foo.tailnetxyz.ts.net","ports"{"tcp:4006:80":{"protocol":"tcp","matchPort":4006,"targetPort":80},"tcp:4007:443":{"protocol":"tcp","matchPort":4007,"targetPort":443}}}}
}
A proxy that is configured with this config file will configure firewall rules
to route cluster traffic to the tailnet targets. It will then watch the config file
for updates as well as monitor relevant netmap updates and reconfigure firewall
as needed.
This adds a bunch of new iptables/nftables functionality to make it easier to dynamically update
the firewall rules without needing to restart the proxy Pod as well as to make
it easier to debug/understand the rules:
- for iptables, each portmapping is a DNAT rule with a comment pointing
at the 'service',i.e:
-A PREROUTING ! -i tailscale0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 4006 -m comment --comment "some-svc:tcp:4006 -> tcp:80" -j DNAT --to-destination 100.64.1.18:80
Additionally there is a SNAT rule for each tailnet target, to mask the source address.
- for nftables, a separate prerouting chain is created for each tailnet target
and all the portmapping rules are placed in that chain. This makes it easier
to look up rules and delete services when no longer needed.
(nftables allows hooking a custom chain to a prerouting hook, so no extra work
is needed to ensure that the rules in the service chains are evaluated).
The next steps will be to get the Kubernetes Operator to generate
the configfile and ensure it is mounted to the relevant proxy nodes.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13406
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
* util/linuxfw: fix IPv6 NAT availability check for nftables
When running firewall in nftables mode,
there is no need for a separate NAT availability check
(unlike with iptables, there are no hosts that support nftables, but not IPv6 NAT - see tailscale/tailscale#11353).
This change fixes a firewall NAT availability check that was using the no-longer set ipv6NATAvailable field
by removing the field and using a method that, for nftables, just checks that IPv6 is available.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#12008
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
This PR bumps iptables to a newer version that has a function to detect
'NotExists' errors and uses that function to determine whether errors
received on iptables rule and chain clean up are because the rule/chain
does not exist- if so don't log the error.
Updates corp#19336
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
* cmd/containerboot,util/linuxfw: support proxy backends specified by DNS name
Adds support for optionally configuring containerboot to proxy
traffic to backends configured by passing TS_EXPERIMENTAL_DEST_DNS_NAME env var
to containerboot.
Containerboot will periodically (every 10 minutes) attempt to resolve
the DNS name and ensure that all traffic sent to the node's
tailnet IP gets forwarded to the resolved backend IP addresses.
Currently:
- if the firewall mode is iptables, traffic will be load balanced
accross the backend IP addresses using round robin. There are
no health checks for whether the IPs are reachable.
- if the firewall mode is nftables traffic will only be forwarded
to the first IP address in the list. This is to be improved.
* cmd/k8s-operator: support ExternalName Services
Adds support for exposing endpoints, accessible from within
a cluster to the tailnet via DNS names using ExternalName Services.
This can be done by annotating the ExternalName Service with
tailscale.com/expose: "true" annotation.
The operator will deploy a proxy configured to route tailnet
traffic to the backend IPs that service.spec.externalName
resolves to. The backend IPs must be reachable from the operator's
namespace.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#10606
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
This removes a potentially increased boot delay for certain boot
topologies where they block on ExecStartPre that may have socket
activation dependencies on other system services (such as
systemd-resolved and NetworkManager).
Also rename cleanup to clean up in affected/immediately nearby places
per code review commentary.
Fixes#11599
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
We have hosts that support IPv6, but not IPv6 firewall configuration
in iptables mode.
We also have hosts that have some support for IPv6 firewall
configuration in iptables mode, but do not have iptables filter table.
We should:
- configure ip rules for all hosts that support IPv6
- only configure firewall rules in iptables mode if the host
has iptables filter table.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#11540
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
There are container environments such as GitHub codespaces that have
partial IPv6 support - routing support is enabled at the kernel level,
but lacking IPv6 filter support in the iptables module.
In the specific example of the codespaces environment, this also has
pre-existing legacy iptables rules in the IPv4 tables, as such the
nascent firewall mode detection will always pick iptables.
We would previously fault trying to install rules to the filter table,
this catches that condition earlier, and disables IPv6 support under
these conditions.
Updates #5621
Updates #11344
Updates #11354
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
* util/linuxfw, wgengine: allow ingress to magicsock UDP port on Linux
Updates #9084.
Currently, we have to tell users to manually open UDP ports on Linux when
certain firewalls (like ufw) are enabled. This change automates the process of
adding and updating those firewall rules as magicsock changes what port it
listens on.
Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
This migrates containerboot to reuse the NetfilterRunner used
by tailscaled instead of manipulating iptables rule itself.
This has the added advantage of now working with nftables and
we can potentially drop the `iptables` command from the container
image in the future.
Updates #9310
Co-authored-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Just a refactor to consolidate the firewall detection logic in a single
package so that it can be reused in a later commit by containerboot.
Updates #9310
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Add an explicit accept rule for input to the tun interface, as a mirror
to the explicit rule to accept output from the tun interface.
The rule matches any packet in to our tun interface and accepts it, and
the rule is positioned and prioritized such that it should be evaluated
prior to conventional ufw/iptables/nft rules.
Updates #391Fixes#7332
Updates #9084
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
This commit adds nftable rule injection for tailscaled. If tailscaled is
started with envknob TS_DEBUG_USE_NETLINK_NFTABLES = true, the router
will use nftables to manage firewall rules.
Updates: #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
This change is introducing new netfilterRunner interface and moving iptables manipulation to a lower leveled iptables runner.
For #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
