improved network stability by having automatic tor restarts

onionr/communicatorutils/daemonqueuehandler.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import onionrevents as events
 from onionrutils import localcommand
 from coredb import daemonqueue
 import filepaths
+from . import restarttor
 def handle_daemon_commands(comm_inst):
     cmd = daemonqueue.daemon_queue()
     response = ''
@@ -43,6 +44,11 @@ def handle_daemon_commands(comm_inst):
                 response = 'none'
         elif cmd[0] == 'localCommand':
             response = localcommand.local_command(cmd[1])
+        elif cmd[0] == 'clearOffline':
+            comm_inst.offlinePeers = []
+        elif cmd[0] == 'restartTor':
+            restarttor.restart(comm_inst)
+            comm_inst.offlinePeers = []
         elif cmd[0] == 'pex':
             for i in comm_inst.timers:
                 if i.timerFunction.__name__ == 'lookupAdders':

onionr/communicatorutils/netcheck.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import logger
 from utils import netutils
 from onionrutils import localcommand, epoch
+from . import restarttor
 def net_check(comm_inst):
     '''Check if we are connected to the internet or not when we can't connect to any peers'''
     rec = False # for detecting if we have received incoming connections recently
@@ -33,7 +34,9 @@ def net_check(comm_inst):
             pass
         if not rec and not netutils.checkNetwork(torPort=comm_inst.proxyPort):
             if not comm_inst.shutdown:
-                logger.warn('Network check failed, are you connected to the Internet, and is Tor working?')
+                logger.warn('Network check failed, are you connected to the Internet, and is Tor working?', terminal=True)
+                restarttor.restart(comm_inst)
+                comm_inst.offlinePeers = []
             comm_inst.isOnline = False
         else:
             comm_inst.isOnline = True

onionr/communicatorutils/restarttor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import netcontroller
+def restart(comm_inst):
+    net = comm_inst.shared_state.get(netcontroller.NetController)
+    net.killTor()
+    net.startTor()