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rustdesk fe1300584c tcp: repeat the punch across the controller's dial window
The single punch leaves before hbbs has told the controller where to dial, so
it is never in flight at the same time as the controller's SYN: it opens our
NAT, meets nothing, and a gateway that answers it with RST takes the mapping
down with it, leaving the listener waiting on a hole that no longer exists.

Punch again while the controller may still be dialing, and race those punches
against the accept. That is two ways in where there was one: the mapping is
rebuilt if a RST took it, and once the controller sits in SYN_SENT one of the
punches meets its SYN and completes as a simultaneous open - which a punch sent
before the controller had been told anything never could. The crossing reaches
the punch rather than the listener because the two sockets share the address
but only the punch matches the four-tuple, which the tests now pin down.

There is no instant to aim at, and no window either. `Client::connect` sizes
the controller's dial only after our PunchHoleSent, from its own rendezvous
time and the direct failures it has recorded for us: CONNECT_TIMEOUT between
two known-asymmetric NATs that never failed, punch_time_used times three or
six otherwise, floored at a second - so a peer that failed once dials for a
second or two from then on, and none of that reaches this side. The repeats
therefore cover our own ceiling instead, CONNECT_TIMEOUT, which is exactly as
long as the accept has always been willing to take a connection through the
hole, and back off across it: dense at the start, where every window begins
and the short ones end, sparse afterwards, which is `punch_udp`'s shape for
the same reason. A window past that ceiling was lost before this change too,
and mostly to the controller's own kernel - Windows gives a SYN up at 21s,
Linux's next re-send after 15s is at 31s; a window short of it costs a few
SYNs to a port already closed.

No punch is cut on a per-attempt timeout; one in flight is bounded only by
the shared deadline plus PUNCH_GRACE. A punch is cancel-safe only while it is
still in SYN_SENT; once the controller's SYN has crossed it the socket is half
way through a handshake, and cutting it there cuts the connection the
controller is opening - whose `connect` has already returned, so that attempt
fails outright, there being no relay fallback after a failed TCP handshake. A
timer cannot tell the two states apart, and none is needed: a gateway that
answers with RST fails the connect at once and the loop punches again, while
one that drops the SYN in silence leaves the socket in SYN_SENT, holding the
mapping open while the kernel re-sends, which any SYN of the controller's then
crosses - a second punch has nothing to add. The deadline decides whether
another punch starts; one in flight runs a grace past it, enough for a
crossing begun just before it to complete. The last sleep is cut at the
deadline rather than run out past it, so the window ends on a punch given
that grace and not on a gap of up to the backoff ceiling: the controller's
window opened after ours, on the PunchHoleSent hbbs relayed, so one as long
as ours is still open through our tail.

Only the accept races the punch, never `accept_connection`: that one does not
return until the session it goes on to run has ended, so racing it would tear a
live session down.

Whichever arrives first is the one connection the request produces. `meta`
carries the control permissions hbbs granted for this one controller, so
serving the loser as well would hand them to a second peer - and nothing about
a connection tells the two apart before `create_tcp_connection` has spoken to
it, least of all its address: a carrier NAT shares one between subscribers,
and a NAT that pools its external addresses may dial us from a different one
than hbbs saw the controller through. So the address is not checked, as
`accept_connection` never checked it; the handshake says who arrived, and what
holds the invariant is that there is no second serve. Those
permissions are a ceiling and not a grant either way: `Connection` gates every
message on `authorized`, and latches the login scope of the first request it
accepts, so a peer that reached the hole still arrives with nothing.

The accept loops rather than taking a single connection, so that a transient
accept error does not spend the window the controller still has to arrive in.

libp2p's DCUtR reaches the same place by having both peers dial at one instant
agreed over the relay. Nothing we send reaches the controller directly, so we
cover its dial window rather than name an instant inside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019aokqJuhjvB3kijXtAg5Ns
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