network: Only insert global addresses into the DHT. (#5735)

* network: Only insert global addresses into the DHT.

Currently every address reported via libp2p-identify is inserted into
the DHT which thus contains a multitude of unreachable addresses such
as from 127.0.0.0/8 or 10.0.0.0/8.

Issue #5099 suggested a dedicated service over UDP to gauge the
reachability of an address, which would however incur extra I/O costs
and be of limited use.

As an alternative and simpler tactic, this PR only allows global IP
addresses to be inserted into the DHT unless an explicit command-line
flag `--allow-non-global-addresses-in-dht` is given or a node is
started with `--dev`. This opt-in behaviour is meant to allow
site-local networks to still make use of a DHT.

* Enable non-global in more test setups.

* Replace command-line option with different name.

* Another test fix.
This commit is contained in:
Toralf Wittner
2020-04-23 09:52:20 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 96b7cec1ce
commit 421ef498f4
8 changed files with 67 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ pub struct NetworkParams {
/// enough confidence that this feature is properly working.
#[structopt(long)]
pub no_yamux_flow_control: bool,
/// Enable peer discovery on local networks.
///
/// By default this option is true for `--dev` and false otherwise.
#[structopt(long)]
pub discover_local: bool,
}
impl NetworkParams {
@@ -141,6 +147,7 @@ impl NetworkParams {
use_yamux_flow_control: !self.no_yamux_flow_control,
},
max_parallel_downloads: self.max_parallel_downloads,
allow_non_globals_in_dht: self.discover_local || is_dev
}
}
}