On mobile the client kept dialing management, signal, relay and peer
connections while the device had no usable network at all (airplane
mode), burning battery for attempts that cannot succeed. Stopping the
engine is not an option: tearing it down destroys the TUN device, and
traffic can leak outside the tunnel until it is rebuilt.
Add client/netstate, a small gate the platform feeds from its own
connectivity callbacks. Every reconnection loop waits on it instead of
retrying blindly, and resets its backoff when the network returns so
recovery is immediate. The state is injected through functional options
and consumers hold a *State that may be nil, so every platform that does
not report availability behaves exactly as before.
The relay quick-reconnect rechecks availability after its 1.5s wait: the
disconnect that triggers it is usually the first symptom of the network
going away, so the flag typically arrives while it sleeps.
Report the suspension to the UI as well. peer.Listener grows
OnStateChanged with a typed ClientState, re-exported across the gomobile
boundary as integer constants, and the notifier maps Connecting to a new
NoNetwork state while the OS reports no network, so mobile clients can
show "no network available" instead of a misleading "connecting".
Finally, exit the client retry loop cleanly when its context is
cancelled. backoff.WithContext surfaces the bare context error, which
callers could not distinguish from a real failure — on Android that
turned an engine restart into an unrecoverable error.
## Describe your changes
The relay client's reconnect backoff was constructed without a
`RandomizationFactor`
([guard.go:156-165](https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/blob/main/shared/relay/client/guard.go#L156-L165)),
so it kept the zero value: every client that lost the same relay server
retried on the identical 2/4/8/16/32/60, potentially in waves.
It was the only exponential backoff in the codebase without a
randomization factor.
Use `backoff.DefaultRandomizationFactor`, as random factor.
## Issue ticket number and link
No public issue. Found while reviewing the relay reconnect path for the
client-metrics review:
22k relay reconnection events in 24h, and the shared transport's own
retry schedule was
identical across all clients.
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- [ ] Is a typo/documentation fix
- [ ] Is a feature enhancement
- [ ] It is a refactor
- [x] Created tests that fail without the change (if possible)
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## Documentation
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Internal retry-timing change with no user-visible surface: no CLI flag,
configuration option
or API field is added or altered, and the mean reconnect delay is
unchanged.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved reconnect timing to distribute repeated connection attempts
more evenly and reduce synchronized retry spikes.
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* [relay] evict foreign client cache on disconnect
When a foreign relay's TCP connection drops, the manager's
onServerDisconnected handler only triggered reconnect logic for the
home server; the disconnected foreign entry stayed in the relayClients
cache. Subsequent OpenConn calls reused the closed client until the
60-second cleanup tick evicted it, breaking peer connectivity through
that relay for up to a minute.
Evict the foreign entry from the cache on disconnect so the next
OpenConn dials a fresh client.
Also:
- Make the reconnect backoff cap configurable via WithMaxBackoffInterval
ManagerOption; the previous hard-coded 60s constant forced
TestAutoReconnect to sleep ~61s. Test now polls Ready() and finishes
in ~2s.
- Add NB_HOME_RELAY_SERVERS env var that overrides the relay URL list
received from management, so a peer can be pinned to a specific home
relay (used by the netbird-conn-lab Edge 4 reproducer).
* [client] treat empty NB_HOME_RELAY_SERVERS as unset
Returning (urls=[], ok=true) when the env var contained only separators or
whitespace caused callers to wipe the mgmt-provided relay list, leaving the
peer with no relays. Treat a parsed-empty result the same as an unset env.
