This provides more redundancy for both services through having 2
instances in each region. The network services have much higher
bandwidth usage and load so this will also delay us needing to obtain
new servers by making better use of the ones we have.
This sets up the infrastructure for moving from storing nginx access
logs in journald to plain text files written by syslog-ng and rotated by
logrotate. This works around the poor performance, poor space efficiency
and lack of archived log compression for journald. Unlike writing access
logs directly with nginx, this continues avoiding blocking writes in the
event loop and sticks to asynchronous sends through a socket.
Since nginx only supports syslog via the RFC 3164 protocol rather than
the more modern RFC 5424 protocol, this leaves formatting timestamps up
to nginx rather than using the ones provided via the syslog protocol.
This needs to be configured by specific services to have any effect. For
now, we're only enabling it for the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and
dnsdist since it's recommended by RFC 9210 and actively used by various
recursive resolver servers when falling back to TCP. TCP Fast Open is
rarely used from end user devices due to it enabling tracking and having
issues with middleboxes. We aren't going to start using it anywhere in
GrapheneOS but may have more server-side uses for it. This functionality
is built into QUIC without the same downsides but QUIC support in the
software we use is not ready for us to enable it, especially the very
primitive support in nginx.
For most servers, a new random TCP Fast Open key is created on a daily
basis and the previous key continues to be accepted. For DNS servers,
the new key is generated via a keyed hash of the current date in order
to keep it consistent across servers providing an anycast IP without it
needing regular synchronization.
This is needed for full network card functionality. It worked without it
and wasn't logging an error message previously so we didn't notice until
network bandwidth was being bottlenecked as part of rolling out our port
to Android 16 to our Stable channel.
It's extremely useful to have this around for debugging network issues,
testing firewall rules and other purposes. It's not particularly useful
having nmap itself, but nping and to a lesser extent ncat are great to
have available.
