fix(netxlite): clearly document quirk and make code robust (#468)

This quirk really saddens me. It's a piece of tech debt we're
carrying over from the original netx implementation.

We cannot remove it _until_ we have legacy netx code around.

The second best thing we can do is to clearly move this code in
a place where it's clear it's a quirk and write and use some extra
code that makes sure the quirk's assumptions are always met.

Sigh.

See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
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@ -2,44 +2,9 @@ package netxlite
import (
"context"
"errors"
"net"
"strings"
"github.com/ooni/probe-cli/v3/internal/errorsx"
)
// reduceErrors finds a known error in a list of errors since
// it's probably most relevant.
//
// Deprecation warning
//
// Albeit still used, this function is now DEPRECATED.
//
// In perspective, we would like to transition to a scenario where
// full dialing is NOT used for measurements and we return a multierror here.
func reduceErrors(errorslist []error) error {
if len(errorslist) == 0 {
return nil
}
// If we have a known error, let's consider this the real error
// since it's probably most relevant. Otherwise let's return the
// first considering that (1) local resolvers likely will give
// us IPv4 first and (2) also our resolver does that. So, in case
// the user has no IPv6 connectivity, an IPv6 error is going to
// appear later in the list of errors.
for _, err := range errorslist {
var wrapper *errorsx.ErrWrapper
if errors.As(err, &wrapper) && !strings.HasPrefix(
err.Error(), "unknown_failure",
) {
return err
}
}
// TODO(bassosimone): handle this case in a better way
return errorslist[0]
}
// These vars export internal names to legacy ooni/probe-cli code.
var (
DefaultDialer = defaultDialer