tailscale/net/dnsfallback/dnsfallback.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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
---

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>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package dnsfallback contains a DNS fallback mechanism
// for starting up Tailscale when the system DNS is broken or otherwise unavailable.
//
// The data is backed by a JSON file `dns-fallback-servers.json` that is updated
// by `update-dns-fallbacks.go`:
//
// (cd net/dnsfallback; go run update-dns-fallbacks.go)
package dnsfallback
import (
"context"
_ "embed"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net"
"net/http"
"net/netip"
"net/url"
"os"
"reflect"
"sync/atomic"
"time"
"tailscale.com/atomicfile"
"tailscale.com/feature"
"tailscale.com/health"
"tailscale.com/net/netmon"
"tailscale.com/net/netns"
"tailscale.com/net/tlsdial"
"tailscale.com/tailcfg"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
"tailscale.com/util/slicesx"
)
// MakeLookupFunc creates a function that can be used to resolve hostnames
// (e.g. as a LookupIPFallback from dnscache.Resolver).
// The netMon parameter is optional; if non-nil it's used to do faster interface lookups.
func MakeLookupFunc(logf logger.Logf, netMon *netmon.Monitor) func(ctx context.Context, host string) ([]netip.Addr, error) {
fr := &fallbackResolver{
logf: logf,
netMon: netMon,
}
return fr.Lookup
}
// fallbackResolver contains the state and configuration for a DNS resolution
// function.
type fallbackResolver struct {
logf logger.Logf
netMon *netmon.Monitor // or nil
healthTracker *health.Tracker // or nil
// for tests
waitForCompare bool
}
func (fr *fallbackResolver) Lookup(ctx context.Context, host string) ([]netip.Addr, error) {
return lookup(ctx, host, fr.logf, fr.healthTracker, fr.netMon)
}
func lookup(ctx context.Context, host string, logf logger.Logf, ht *health.Tracker, netMon *netmon.Monitor) ([]netip.Addr, error) {
if ip, err := netip.ParseAddr(host); err == nil && ip.IsValid() {
return []netip.Addr{ip}, nil
}
type nameIP struct {
dnsName string
ip netip.Addr
}
dm := GetDERPMap()
var cands4, cands6 []nameIP
for _, dr := range dm.Regions {
for _, n := range dr.Nodes {
if ip, err := netip.ParseAddr(n.IPv4); err == nil {
cands4 = append(cands4, nameIP{n.HostName, ip})
}
if ip, err := netip.ParseAddr(n.IPv6); err == nil {
cands6 = append(cands6, nameIP{n.HostName, ip})
}
}
}
slicesx.Shuffle(cands4)
slicesx.Shuffle(cands6)
const maxCands = 6
var cands []nameIP // up to maxCands alternating v4/v6 as long as we have both
for (len(cands4) > 0 || len(cands6) > 0) && len(cands) < maxCands {
if len(cands4) > 0 {
cands = append(cands, cands4[0])
cands4 = cands4[1:]
}
if len(cands6) > 0 {
cands = append(cands, cands6[0])
cands6 = cands6[1:]
}
}
if len(cands) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no DNS fallback options for %q", host)
}
for _, cand := range cands {
if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
logf("trying bootstrapDNS(%q, %q) for %q ...", cand.dnsName, cand.ip, host)
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 3*time.Second)
defer cancel()
dm, err := bootstrapDNSMap(ctx, cand.dnsName, cand.ip, host, logf, ht, netMon)
if err != nil {
logf("bootstrapDNS(%q, %q) for %q error: %v", cand.dnsName, cand.ip, host, err)
continue
}
if ips := dm[host]; len(ips) > 0 {
slicesx.Shuffle(ips)
logf("bootstrapDNS(%q, %q) for %q = %v", cand.dnsName, cand.ip, host, ips)
return ips, nil
}
}
if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no DNS fallback candidates remain for %q", host)
}
// serverName and serverIP of are, say, "derpN.tailscale.com".
// queryName is the name being sought (e.g. "controlplane.tailscale.com"), passed as hint.
//
// ht may be nil.
func bootstrapDNSMap(ctx context.Context, serverName string, serverIP netip.Addr, queryName string, logf logger.Logf, ht *health.Tracker, netMon *netmon.Monitor) (dnsMap, error) {
dialer := netns.NewDialer(logf, netMon)
tr := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).Clone()
tr.DisableKeepAlives = true // This transport is meant to be used once.
tr.Proxy = feature.HookProxyFromEnvironment.GetOrNil()
tr.DialContext = func(ctx context.Context, netw, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
return dialer.DialContext(ctx, "tcp", net.JoinHostPort(serverIP.String(), "443"))
}
tr.TLSClientConfig = tlsdial.Config(ht, tr.TLSClientConfig)
c := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "GET", "https://"+serverName+"/bootstrap-dns?q="+url.QueryEscape(queryName), nil)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
dm := make(dnsMap)
res, err := c.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer res.Body.Close()
if res.StatusCode != 200 {
return nil, errors.New(res.Status)
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&dm); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return dm, nil
}
// dnsMap is the JSON type returned by the DERP /bootstrap-dns handler:
// https://derp10.tailscale.com/bootstrap-dns
type dnsMap map[string][]netip.Addr
// GetDERPMap returns a fallback DERP map that is always available, useful for basic
// bootstrapping purposes. The dynamically updated DERP map in LocalBackend should
// always be preferred over this. Use this DERP map only when the control plane is
// unreachable or hasn't been reached yet. The DERP servers in the returned map also
// run a fallback DNS server.
func GetDERPMap() *tailcfg.DERPMap {
dm := getStaticDERPMap()
// Merge in any DERP servers from the cached map that aren't in the
// static map; this ensures that we're getting new region(s) while not
// overriding the built-in fallbacks if things go horribly wrong and we
// get a bad DERP map.
//
// TODO(andrew): should we expect OmitDefaultRegions here? We're not
// forwarding traffic, just resolving DNS, so maybe we can ignore that
// value anyway?
cached := cachedDERPMap.Load()
if cached == nil {
return dm
}
for id, region := range cached.Regions {
dr, ok := dm.Regions[id]
if !ok {
dm.Regions[id] = region
continue
}
// Add any nodes that we don't already have.
seen := make(map[string]bool)
for _, n := range dr.Nodes {
seen[n.HostName] = true
}
for _, n := range region.Nodes {
if !seen[n.HostName] {
dr.Nodes = append(dr.Nodes, n)
}
}
}
return dm
}
// getStaticDERPMap returns the DERP map that was compiled into this binary.
func getStaticDERPMap() *tailcfg.DERPMap {
dm := new(tailcfg.DERPMap)
if err := json.Unmarshal(staticDERPMapJSON, dm); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return dm
}
//go:embed dns-fallback-servers.json
var staticDERPMapJSON []byte
// cachedDERPMap is the path to a cached DERP map that we loaded from our on-disk cache.
var cachedDERPMap atomic.Pointer[tailcfg.DERPMap]
// cachePath is the path to the DERP map cache file, set by SetCachePath via
// ipnserver.New() if we have a state directory.
var cachePath string
// UpdateCache stores the DERP map cache back to disk.
//
// The caller must not mutate 'c' after calling this function.
func UpdateCache(c *tailcfg.DERPMap, logf logger.Logf) {
// Don't do anything if nothing changed.
curr := cachedDERPMap.Load()
if reflect.DeepEqual(curr, c) {
return
}
d, err := json.Marshal(c)
if err != nil {
logf("[v1] dnsfallback: UpdateCache error marshaling: %v", err)
return
}
// Only store after we're confident this is at least valid JSON
cachedDERPMap.Store(c)
// Don't try writing if we don't have a cache path set; this can happen
// when we don't have a state path (e.g. /var/lib/tailscale) configured.
if cachePath != "" {
err = atomicfile.WriteFile(cachePath, d, 0600)
if err != nil {
logf("[v1] dnsfallback: UpdateCache error writing: %v", err)
return
}
}
}
// SetCachePath sets the path to the on-disk DERP map cache that we store and
// update. Additionally, if a file at this path exists, we load it and merge it
// with the DERP map baked into the binary.
//
// This function should be called before any calls to UpdateCache, as it is not
// concurrency-safe.
func SetCachePath(path string, logf logger.Logf) {
cachePath = path
f, err := os.Open(path)
if err != nil {
logf("[v1] dnsfallback: SetCachePath error reading %q: %v", path, err)
return
}
defer f.Close()
dm := new(tailcfg.DERPMap)
if err := json.NewDecoder(f).Decode(dm); err != nil {
logf("[v1] dnsfallback: SetCachePath error decoding %q: %v", path, err)
return
}
cachedDERPMap.Store(dm)
logf("[v2] dnsfallback: SetCachePath loaded cached DERP map")
}