Merge pull request 'ADR 0191: domains are a node's — the resolver holds each node's internal domain, nothing else' (#323) from decision/0191-names-by-origin into main

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@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ supersedes-in-part:
# 191. The mesh's resolver holds only the mesh's own names; a public name resolves publicly
> **Progressive insight — 2026-10-03.** The first implementation told the mesh's names from public
> ones by their spelling — a name ending in the mesh suffix — and this record said so: the Decision
> read *"only names under its own suffix"*, and the roster check *"every name the roster carries ends
> in the mesh suffix"*. The mesh needs no such test, nor any per-route name: domains are a node's. A
> node has **one internal domain**, `<node>.internal`, and every route on it is a name under that domain
> (ADR 0151), answered by one wildcard per node; a node has **one or more public domains**, which public
> DNS answers. So the mesh's resolver holds the nodes' internal domains and nothing else, and the roster
> carries the machines and no routed name. Both sentences now say that; what was decided — a public
> name is never given a private answer — is unchanged.
## Context
**[ADR 0066](0066-public-routing-is-name-agnostic.md) published every routed name into internal
@@ -63,7 +73,8 @@ every public name the mesh serves, is forwarded and resolves publicly. Chosen.
## Decision
**The mesh publishes into internal resolution only names under its own suffix.** A machine's name,
**The mesh's resolver holds each node's internal domain and nothing else** — `<node>.internal` and
everything under it, at that node's private address. A machine's name,
and through it every `<label>.<node>.internal`, resolve to that machine's private address. **A public
name is never given a private answer by the mesh**: it resolves through public DNS to the public
address, from members and non-members alike.
@@ -93,8 +104,8 @@ reachability — the lab — certifies its internal names and has no public name
**How each is checked:**
- **The roster:** the controller's catalogue tests assert that every name the roster carries ends in
the mesh suffix — a routed public name in it fails the build.
- **The roster:** the controller's tests assert that the roster names the machines and nothing
else — a routed name in it, public or internal, fails the build.
- **On a machine:** asking the machine's resolver for a public name the mesh serves returns the
public address, and asking it for that route's internal name returns the private one. Asked from a
non-member on a LAN the resolver answers, the first must hold as well.