don't apply blacklist to proxy connections

Signed-off-by: Marcus Hoffmann <bubu@bubu1.eu>

changelog.d/9084.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Don't blacklist connections to the configured proxy. Contributed by @Bubu.

synapse/http/client.py

@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.agent = ProxyAgent(
             self.reactor,
+            hs.get_reactor(),
             connectTimeout=15,
             contextFactory=self.hs.get_http_client_context_factory(),
             pool=pool,

synapse/http/proxyagent.py

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ class ProxyAgent(_AgentBase):
         reactor: twisted reactor to place outgoing
             connections.
 
+        proxy_reactor: twisted reactor to use for connections to the proxy server
+                       reactor might have some blacklisting applied (i.e. for DNS queries),
+                       but we need unblocked access to the proxy.
+
         contextFactory (IPolicyForHTTPS): A factory for TLS contexts, to control the
             verification parameters of OpenSSL.  The default is to use a
             `BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS`, so unless you have special
@@ -59,6 +63,7 @@ class ProxyAgent(_AgentBase):
     def __init__(
         self,
         reactor,
+        proxy_reactor=None,
         contextFactory=BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS(),
         connectTimeout=None,
         bindAddress=None,
@@ -68,18 +73,23 @@ def __init__(
     ):
         _AgentBase.__init__(self, reactor, pool)
 
+        if proxy_reactor is None:
+            self.proxy_reactor = reactor
+        else:
+            self.proxy_reactor = proxy_reactor
+
         self._endpoint_kwargs = {}
         if connectTimeout is not None:
             self._endpoint_kwargs["timeout"] = connectTimeout
         if bindAddress is not None:
             self._endpoint_kwargs["bindAddress"] = bindAddress
 
         self.http_proxy_endpoint = _http_proxy_endpoint(
-            http_proxy, reactor, **self._endpoint_kwargs
+            http_proxy, self.proxy_reactor, **self._endpoint_kwargs
         )
 
         self.https_proxy_endpoint = _http_proxy_endpoint(
-            https_proxy, reactor, **self._endpoint_kwargs
+            https_proxy, self.proxy_reactor, **self._endpoint_kwargs
         )
 
         self._policy_for_https = contextFactory
@@ -137,7 +147,7 @@ def request(self, method, uri, headers=None, bodyProducer=None):
             request_path = uri
         elif parsed_uri.scheme == b"https" and self.https_proxy_endpoint:
             endpoint = HTTPConnectProxyEndpoint(
-                self._reactor,
+                self.proxy_reactor,
                 self.https_proxy_endpoint,
                 parsed_uri.host,
                 parsed_uri.port,