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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-22
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located-in: [mesh-controller internal/overlay, mesh-host internal/apply]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: ADR 0102 (mesh-controller internal/overlay: the runtime file written into, reloaded), issue 128 (the hosts file as a region)
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amended-design: 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md
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---
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@@ -56,3 +56,12 @@ and nothing checks for it today.
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- Should an adopted node that cannot trust the registry be refused a module that needs to pull?
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Or should the refusal come earlier, when the node joins?
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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The runtime's file is written into and the runtime reloaded, never restarted
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([ADR 0102](../../02-DECISIONS/0102-the-mesh-writes-into-a-shared-file-never-over-it.md), the
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diagnosis above); the hosts file is a marked region the mesh owns alone
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([issue 128](../128-the-hosts-file-is-written-whole/00-report.md)). Neither whole file remains. Read
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into [ADR 0168](../../02-DECISIONS/0168-a-converged-machine-is-filtered-by-the-mesh-alone.md), rule 5,
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which names the one whole machine-wide file the mesh still writes — its own filter at the
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distribution's path — as a difference a take shows, not a fault.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-22
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-controller 201 (the preview names the narrowing and the port's reach), 206 (`take --yes <digest>` acts on the preview read)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -40,3 +40,13 @@ it changes before it changes it, and for taking a module this one does not.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 1 and 2: the preview names a narrowing. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built, 2026-10-02
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mesh-controller 201 and the pull request after it: the preview names it, and `take --yes <digest>`
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acts on the preview that was read. Stays located until a take is read on an adopted machine — every
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machine of this mesh is converged today, so the record's live row has not been run.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02 with the built and tested code live on every machine (mesh-controller 206, mesh-host 64), not on a take read on an adopted machine: every machine of this mesh is converged, so none holds a found thing to compare, and the record's live row — ADR 0163's last — will be read at the next real adoption rather than staged. Said here so nobody later believes that row was run.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-22
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 64 (genesis raises the forge as `gitea`, on the module's image digest, with the module's data directory at /data; a test holds the installer to the module's manifest)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -53,3 +53,17 @@ network, or it is not a takeover.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rule 7: genesis raises as the module declares. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built in part, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 64: genesis raises the forge under the module's container name (`gitea`), pinned to the
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module's image digest, with the module's data directory mounted at `/data` — so the module finds it,
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holds it, and a take compares equal images and the same data. A test holds the installer's constants
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to the module's manifest where the catalogue is checked out beside it. The network is the difference
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left: the bootstrap forge runs on the machine's network to reach the store on its loopback, the module
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runs bridged and publishes its ports, and the take says so. Closing waits for group 9's genesis test —
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a mesh raised, the module assigned, and the module found holding rather than raising a second forge.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02. Name, image and data directory align; the network does not — the bootstrap forge runs on the machine's network to reach the store on its loopback, the module runs bridged — and a take says so rather than hides it. Whether genesis should move the forge onto a bridge, and the test that raises a mesh and finds the module holding rather than raising a second forge, belong to group 9's genesis work and are not owed by this record any more.
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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-controller (the pull request after 201: JudgeSettings, LeftOut), mesh-host 64 (left_out kept)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -63,3 +63,12 @@ knowing the code.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rule 6: judged where stored; an impossible statement costs a module. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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One judgement, in the catalogue, run where a setting is stored and where a machine is composed. Stored,
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a setting that cannot compose with the module's current definition is refused naming the node, the
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module, the layer and the key; a key that reaches nothing is refused there too. Composed, a definition
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that moved under a stored setting leaves that module out of the machine's declaration — the envelope
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names it, the host keeps what it holds and wrote for it, `plan` and `push` say it — and the machine is
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told everything else. A stray setting no longer refuses the whole machine where it is read.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 63 (former targets removed, strays reported), mesh-controller 201/202 (strays shown)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -80,3 +80,11 @@ found, and so would be kept for ever on purpose.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rule 5: former targets are removed and strays reported. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 63: the host's record keeps a resource's former targets, removes a container or file it
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wrote under a name the declaration no longer names, never what was found, and reports strays — what
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runs on the machine that the mesh neither wrote nor holds. mesh-controller 201 and 202 show strays
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on `node show` for an adopted and a converged machine alike; the live mesh reported four on the
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control node the evening it rolled.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 63 (the kept original's difference), mesh-controller 201 (shown; a differing file refuses unless `--replace <path>`)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -68,3 +68,13 @@ written.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 1 and 2: the difference is shown and a differing file refuses. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 63 reports the difference between the kept original and the declared content; mesh-controller
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201 shows it in the preview and refuses a differing file unless `--replace <path>` names it, or the
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module declares the file partially. Stays located until a take is read on an adopted machine.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02 with the built and tested code live on every machine (mesh-controller 206, mesh-host 64), not on a take read on an adopted machine: every machine of this mesh is converged, so none holds a found thing to compare, and the record's live row — ADR 0163's last — will be read at the next real adoption rather than staged. Said here so nobody later believes that row was run.
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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 63 (both images' creation dates), mesh-controller 201 (DOWNGRADE said; refused unless `--downgrade`)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -65,3 +65,13 @@ expected rate.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 1 and 2: the images are compared by age and a downgrade refuses. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 63 reports the found image and both images' creation dates; mesh-controller 201 says
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DOWNGRADE and refuses unless `--downgrade` is said. Stays located until a take is read on an adopted
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machine.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02 with the built and tested code live on every machine (mesh-controller 206, mesh-host 64), not on a take read on an adopted machine: every machine of this mesh is converged, so none holds a found thing to compare, and the record's live row — ADR 0163's last — will be read at the next real adoption rather than staged. Said here so nobody later believes that row was run.
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+14
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-controller 201 (`secret accept --provider` reaches a required secret), 206 (a module's secrets listed with origin; a minted one for found data refuses unless `--mint <name>`)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -70,3 +70,15 @@ the module can only be installed fresh.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 2 and 3: a minted secret for found data refuses; secret accept reaches required secrets. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built, 2026-10-02
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`secret accept <node> <module> <name> --provider <node>` reaches a required secret (mesh-controller 201).
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The pull request after it reads every secret a module holds on a machine with its origin, and a take
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of a module whose data was found refuses a minted, unaccepted one — naming the accept that carries
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the existing value in, or `--mint <name>` to let the service take the new one. Stays located until
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a take is read on an adopted machine.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02 with the built and tested code live on every machine (mesh-controller 206, mesh-host 64), not on a take read on an adopted machine: every machine of this mesh is converged, so none holds a found thing to compare, and the record's live row — ADR 0163's last — will be read at the next real adoption rather than staged. Said here so nobody later believes that row was run.
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+13
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-23
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located-in: [mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go (take previews nothing), mesh-host internal/apply (the comparison and the record)]
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-controller 201 (the neighbours on a found network are named), 206 (the per-machine `networks` setting), mesh-host 64 (the taken container joins the kept network)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -66,3 +66,14 @@ exercise.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 1 and 4: the neighbours are named; a found network may be kept by a setting. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Built, 2026-10-02
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The preview names every neighbour on a found network (mesh-controller 201). The pull request after it
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adds the per-machine setting `networks` — a container id to the found networks it keeps — judged for an
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adopted machine only, and mesh-host 64 has the taken container join each once it runs. Stays located
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until a take is read on an adopted machine.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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Closed on the operator's decision of 2026-10-02 with the built and tested code live on every machine (mesh-controller 206, mesh-host 64), not on a take read on an adopted machine: every machine of this mesh is converged, so none holds a found thing to compare, and the record's live row — ADR 0163's last — will be read at the next real adoption rather than staged. Said here so nobody later believes that row was run.
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@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-26
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located-in: [mesh-host internal/apply]
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fixed-by: mesh-host 63 (every written field compared), mesh-controller 201 (build says the policy)
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amended-design:
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---
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# 126 — a volume path is not in the spec comparison, and a roll-out raced a data move
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@@ -50,3 +52,9 @@ the install-page junk was discarded twice.
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[ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rules 5 and 7: every field compared; build says the policy. Building follows,
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host first, then the controller's `take`.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 63: every field the host writes is compared before a container is called current, volumes
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and paths included. mesh-controller 201: `build` and the take-in say when a module's policy rolls a
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result out at once; under ADR 0162 the plan says it too.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-28
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located-in:
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- mesh-controller internal/catalogue/filtering.go
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- mesh-host internal/apply
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: ADR 0140 — mesh-controller (the filter around outward links; no network ranges anywhere)
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amended-design: 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/08-connectivity.md
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---
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@@ -86,3 +86,11 @@ supersedes both 0137 and the first attempt at answering this.
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runtime, or left as the one constant?
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- Should the preview say which of a machine's networks are the mesh's and which are not, so a range
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that exists to protect a leftover is visible as such?
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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By [ADR 0140](../../02-DECISIONS/0140-the-filter-constrains-what-arrives-from-outside.md), built and
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live since 2026-09-29: the forward chain constrains what arrives on the machine's outward links and
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says nothing about networks, so there is no list to derive and nothing for a preview to tell apart.
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Read into [ADR 0168](../../02-DECISIONS/0168-a-converged-machine-is-filtered-by-the-mesh-alone.md),
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rule 5, which closes it.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-29
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located-in:
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- mesh-host internal/apply/opening.go (retireFirewall)
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- mesh-host internal/apply/apply.go (the condition it is called under)
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 67 (retire on every converged apply; found-inactive apart from disabled-by-mesh; a skipped step said), mesh-controller 211 (the found firewall's state on node show)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -100,3 +100,21 @@ harmless, but the mesh's belief about which firewall is in force has been wrong
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so". Should it?
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- Why do the host's own detail lines not reach the journal? Everything it decided during the flip is
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unrecoverable, which is why this account has candidates instead of a cause.
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## Decided, 2026-10-02
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[ADR 0168](../../02-DECISIONS/0168-a-converged-machine-is-filtered-by-the-mesh-alone.md), rule 1:
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convergence is a state the host keeps — the found firewall active again is retired again and said, a
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reconcile that finds it inactive records *found so* and never *done by the mesh*, and a step skipped
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after a failed apply is said. Built in mesh-host on `feat/one-thing-filters-a-converged-machine`; the
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record of both machines of this mesh is corrected by the first report under it.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 67 and mesh-controller 211, live on every machine at 10:10Z. The step now runs on every
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converged apply and says what it did; a found firewall enabled again is retired again. The record's
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one inherited lie stands as history: on the control node the machine's own record already said the
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mesh had disabled the firewall, and the host trusts its record, so `node show` says "retired by the
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mesh" there. From this build on, a reconcile that finds the firewall inactive records *found inactive*
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and never the other thing. Whether the flip's step took on 2026-09-29 is not recoverable and is not
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owed by this record any more.
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---
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status: located
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-09-29
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located-in:
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- mesh-host internal/apply/opening.go
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- mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller (the converge preview)
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fixed-by:
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fixed-by: mesh-host 67 (every refusing table and legacy chain classified with an owner; the runtime's user chain is other), mesh-controller 211 (kept, shown on node show, named by status, previewed with fates)
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amended-design:
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---
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@@ -82,3 +82,24 @@ everything reached from within.
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- Is the bus and the registry being reachable from anywhere still what the mesh wants on a machine that
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faces the internet? The design says yes, for enrolment. It deserves asking on its own rather than
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being answered by a leftover.
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## Decided, 2026-10-02
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[ADR 0168](../../02-DECISIONS/0168-a-converged-machine-is-filtered-by-the-mesh-alone.md), rules 2 and
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3: the host reports every table and legacy chain that refuses, with an owner, and the runtime's user
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chain's refusals as *other*; `node show`, `status` and the converge preview say it. Built on
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`feat/one-thing-filters-a-converged-machine` in mesh-host and mesh-controller. On 2026-10-02 the home
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server still carries the predecessor's chain in its legacy filter; the record's live row is reading it
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there.
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## Resolved, 2026-10-02
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mesh-host 67 and mesh-controller 211, live at 10:10Z. The live row of
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[ADR 0168](../../02-DECISIONS/0168-a-converged-machine-is-filtered-by-the-mesh-alone.md) was read the
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same hour: the home server's record names the predecessor's chain in the legacy filter's user chain
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as *other*, with what it refuses, beside two chains a retired front end left in the IPv6 legacy filter;
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the control node's record names the same two leftovers; the laptop and the workstation read *the mesh
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alone*. `status` names both machines and is not well until the operator removes what the mesh did not
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write. The allowance the predecessor's chain carried is
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[issue 145](../145-a-machine-reads-healthy-while-its-modules-cannot-reach-each-other/00-report.md)'s,
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and that record is not closed by this one.
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@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
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---
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-10-01
|
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located-in: [mesh-controller examples/route-proxy/main.go (routesFrom requires a route's public `name` and treats `internal-name` only as an alias of it; the handler serves every routed name to any source), mesh-controller internal/broker/membership.go (a membership says nothing of what its module receives or who the mesh is)]
|
||||
fixed-by: mesh-controller PR 207 (the membership carries what a module receives and who the mesh is; the proxy follows it and serves internal names to the mesh only), mesh-catalog PR 211 (the proxy's bus account), mesh-controller PR 208 (the issue verb that delivers it), live 2026-10-02
|
||||
amended-design: [03-DESIGN/01-to-be/08-connectivity.md, 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/25-the-bus-on-nats.md]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# 191 — A route with only an internal name is dropped as naming nothing
|
||||
|
||||
## What was observed
|
||||
|
||||
A module whose endpoint reaches only the private network could not be reached by its internal name.
|
||||
The module ran and answered on its own port. Its route's internal name resolved to the serving node.
|
||||
The request failed during the TLS handshake:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
http: TLS handshake error from …: no public route for "unifi.home-server.internal" in this mesh,
|
||||
so no certificate is asked for
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The proxy's own log said why, every time it re-read its routes:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
unifi on home-server asked for a route and named nothing; skipped
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The route it skipped was not empty. The mesh had given it an endpoint, a port, a scheme and an internal
|
||||
name, and no public name:
|
||||
|
||||
| route | `name` | `internal-name` | served |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| home-assistant | a public name | `home-assistant.home-server.internal` | under both |
|
||||
| unifi | — | `unifi.home-server.internal` | under neither |
|
||||
|
||||
Three other modules on the same node were skipped with the same line on the same pass.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it matters
|
||||
|
||||
**Reach is decided in one place, and the proxy reads the old shape of the decision.**
|
||||
[ADR 0138](../../02-DECISIONS/0138-an-assignment-binds-an-endpoint-and-says-how-far-it-reaches.md)
|
||||
made an endpoint's reach decide which names exist. The controller composes the public name, the
|
||||
internal name, or both, and composes no name that nobody asked for
|
||||
([issue 140](../140-an-endpoints-reach-is-not-declared/01-resolution.md)). An endpoint that reaches
|
||||
only the private network is the ordinary case for anything that should not face the internet. It is
|
||||
exactly the case the proxy drops.
|
||||
|
||||
**The failure is quiet and points the wrong way.** Nothing marks the module unhealthy. The handshake
|
||||
error says *no public route*, which reads as a certificate fault on the reader's side. The line that
|
||||
gives the real cause is one of four identical lines repeated every few seconds in a log nobody reads
|
||||
until they already suspect the proxy.
|
||||
|
||||
**The opposite move is not a workaround.** Giving the endpoint public reach makes the proxy serve it.
|
||||
It also publishes an administration interface to the internet to get a name on the private network.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
- Should the proxy refuse a route it cannot serve in a way the controller or an operator sees, not
|
||||
only in its own log? The same silent skip covers a route with no usable port or an unknown scheme.
|
||||
- What checks that what the controller composes and what the proxy serves stay the same shape? ADR
|
||||
0138 changed one side and nothing failed on the other.
|
||||
|
||||
## Resolved (2026-10-02)
|
||||
|
||||
Built as [ADR 0167](../../02-DECISIONS/0167-a-membership-carries-what-its-module-receives-and-who-the-mesh-is.md)
|
||||
decided, and live on both machines that run the proxy. Each logs that its routes now come from its
|
||||
membership, and serves internal names to the four machines the mesh names. Checked by hand:
|
||||
|
||||
- the internal-only route answers through the proxy from the serving machine and from two other
|
||||
machines of the mesh, over a certificate from the mesh's own authority that each verifies;
|
||||
- the same name asked from an address outside the mesh is answered as a name never routed, over plain
|
||||
HTTP, and refused in the TLS handshake; the list of served names it is shown leaves out every internal
|
||||
name.
|
||||
|
||||
Two things the rollout found are their own records: the proxy's bus account could be issued only from
|
||||
the controller's command line, until mesh-controller PR 208 added the `issue` verb, and the status line
|
||||
counting every module as a bus user without a credential is
|
||||
[issue 195](../195-every-assigned-module-is-counted-as-a-bus-user-without-a-credential/00-report.md).
|
||||
The serving machine also lacked the certificate-trust module, so it could not verify the mesh's own
|
||||
certificates until it was assigned there.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
|
||||
# Diagnosis
|
||||
|
||||
*2026-10-01.*
|
||||
|
||||
**Ruled out first: the module itself.** Its container was up and had not restarted. The controller's
|
||||
status endpoint answered on its own port with `"up": true`. The tool wrapper beside it was serving
|
||||
all its tools.
|
||||
|
||||
**Ruled out: name resolution.** The internal name resolved to the serving node's private-network
|
||||
address, which is where the proxy listens. Plain HTTP to the name reached the proxy and got a 404.
|
||||
HTTPS failed in the handshake, and the proxy logged that it had no route for the name.
|
||||
|
||||
**The route as the proxy received it.** The mesh-written route file held a complete contribution
|
||||
for the module: endpoint `web`, port, scheme `https`, `insecure`, a label, and `internal-name`. It had
|
||||
no `name`. That is what the controller composes for an endpoint whose reach stops at the private
|
||||
network (ADR 0138, `composeName`). The contribution was correct.
|
||||
|
||||
**Located: `routesFrom` in the proxy.** It reads `name` first and skips the contribution if `name`
|
||||
is empty. It reads `internal-name` only at the end, as a second host for a rule that already has a
|
||||
public one. So the proxy can serve an internal name only next to a public one. That matched the
|
||||
mesh before ADR 0138, when both names were always composed. It has been wrong since then.
|
||||
|
||||
The other half of the proxy already handles the case. Certificates for a host are split by whether it
|
||||
is in the public set: hosts outside it go to the internal authority, and only hosts inside it are
|
||||
eligible for ACME. A host that is only ever an internal name falls on the correct side of both checks
|
||||
without change. For certificates, only reading the route was wrong; who may reach the route is the next section.
|
||||
|
||||
**The fix.** `routesFrom` takes a route that names either host, serves each name it carries, and
|
||||
marks only the public one as public. It still skips a route that names neither, with the same log line.
|
||||
A test proves an internal-only route is served, certified by the internal authority, and refused by
|
||||
the public one. That test fails against the code before the change.
|
||||
|
||||
## The first fix would have made the name public — 2026-10-02, from review
|
||||
|
||||
Serving the dropped route was not enough. The proxy picks a route from the name a request carries
|
||||
and never from where the request came from, and it answers public and internal names on the same
|
||||
listeners. Its public names resolve to an address the internet reaches. So once the internal-only
|
||||
route was served, any request from the internet carrying `unifi.home-server.internal` — a name of a
|
||||
fixed, guessable shape — would have reached an administration interface that reach `internal` was
|
||||
chosen to keep private. Before the fix the route was unreachable from everywhere. After it, it would
|
||||
have been reachable from everywhere. Two more leaks came with it: the proxy's answer for an unrouted
|
||||
name listed every name it serves, internal ones included, and the handshake handed a certificate
|
||||
naming the internal host to any client.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing showed this while every routed endpoint also had a public name: its internal name exposed
|
||||
nothing the public one did not. It is a gap in the decision's wording, not only in the proxy — ADR
|
||||
0138 says the proxy *serves* the internal name without saying to whom — so it is recorded there as a
|
||||
progressive insight and in the to-be connectivity design.
|
||||
|
||||
**Where "inside" is decided: told, not worked out.** The first correction had the proxy work it out
|
||||
for itself — the mesh's range from an environment variable the catalogue wrote, and the machine's
|
||||
container bridges from its own interfaces. That was a second definition of "the mesh", kept by one
|
||||
module beside the one the controller already has: it resolves "from the mesh" to every machine's
|
||||
address on the private network, and the packet filter is rendered from that list. Reviewed, it was
|
||||
replaced: [ADR 0167](../../02-DECISIONS/0167-a-membership-carries-what-its-module-receives-and-who-the-mesh-is.md)
|
||||
has every membership on the bus carry what its module receives and that list, and the proxy follows
|
||||
its membership. One composition, read by the filter and by the proxy.
|
||||
|
||||
The proxy reads the source address, where the guard reads the interface, because it cannot see the
|
||||
interface a request arrived on. A claimed source does not carry here: a connection needs its replies,
|
||||
and replies to a mesh address leave by the tunnel.
|
||||
|
||||
**What changed with it.** The internal name of a route that also has a public one is now served to the
|
||||
mesh only, like any other internal name. Outsiders have the public name, so nothing they could reach is
|
||||
lost. A container calling its own machine's internal name arrives from its container network and is
|
||||
refused; whether the mesh should issue those networks too is left open in ADR 0167.
|
||||
|
||||
**Order of release.**
|
||||
|
||||
1. The catalogue change, which gives the proxy a bus account. A machine running the proxy is not
|
||||
composed until its account is issued, so the account is issued straight after
|
||||
(`module issue route-proxy --node <machine>`), and then the machine is pushed.
|
||||
2. The controller and proxy change. The push after it publishes memberships that carry the routes and
|
||||
the mesh, and each proxy takes them. Until then, a proxy serves its file, and internal names to its
|
||||
own machine alone.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
status: resolved
|
||||
opened: 2026-10-02
|
||||
located-in: [mesh-host internal/apply (removeOrphan: a former target of a kind with no removal was fatal), mesh-host internal/store (Record keeps a former target for every kind, the host's own archive included)]
|
||||
fixed-by: mesh-host 65 — a former target of a kind the host cannot remove is left in place, said and forgotten; a dropped archive still refuses
|
||||
amended-design:
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# 194 — The host's own former archive stops every machine applying anything
|
||||
|
||||
## What was observed
|
||||
|
||||
2026-10-02, 00:34Z, on all four machines of this mesh, the first time a host carrying former
|
||||
targets ([ADR 0163](../../02-DECISIONS/0163-taking-a-module-over-is-a-comparison.md), rule 5,
|
||||
built in mesh-host 63) replaced itself with a newer host (mesh-host 64).
|
||||
|
||||
The host delivers its own successor as an archive whose target is a versioned directory
|
||||
([ADR 0141](../../02-DECISIONS/0141-the-host-delivers-its-own-successor.md)): every new version
|
||||
is the same resource with a new target. Since mesh-host 63 the record keeps a resource's former
|
||||
target so the next apply removes what the host wrote under it
|
||||
([issue 097](../097-a-resource-that-changes-target-leaves-the-old-one-behind/00-report.md)). So
|
||||
the new host's first apply found the previous version's directory as a former target of its own
|
||||
archive, and asked the removal for an archive — which does not exist
|
||||
([issue 162](../162-an-archive-cannot-be-undeclared/00-report.md)):
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
applying "mesh-host.next@former:/usr/lib/nox-mesh-host/versions/3c906749ad27": no way to remove a "archive"
|
||||
0 resource(s) were applied and remain
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Orphans are removed before any resource is applied on a converged machine, so the refusal ended
|
||||
every apply at its first step. Every machine reported `failed`, applied nothing, and would have
|
||||
gone on doing so: a host fix is itself an archive the same apply would have to write, and the apply
|
||||
never reached it. The machines kept running what they had; nothing new from the mesh could land.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it matters beyond this instance
|
||||
|
||||
Two rules that are each right met in the one resource the host cannot afford to stop on. Rule 5
|
||||
says a former target is removed and said; issue 162 says an archive has no removal, deliberately,
|
||||
so an unassignment nothing can undo is never reported as done. Neither rule was wrong; their
|
||||
meeting was never tested, because the bed that would have found it is a host replacing itself
|
||||
under the new rule, and the first such replacement was the live one. The fix is narrow: a former
|
||||
target of a kind the host cannot remove is left in place, said, and forgotten — never fatal,
|
||||
because nobody dropped it. An archive the declaration dropped still refuses, as 162 has it.
|
||||
|
||||
## What it took to recover
|
||||
|
||||
The broken host cannot apply its own fix: the fix is delivered as an archive, and the apply fails
|
||||
before writing anything. On each machine the host's record (`/var/lib/mesh-host/state.json`) had to
|
||||
lose the one `@former:` entry by hand, once, so that the next push could write the fixed archive and
|
||||
stand aside for it. A manual edit of the host's record is otherwise never done; it is written here
|
||||
because the alternative was four machines that could apply nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
- Should `Record` keep a former target for a kind the host cannot remove at all? The trace is
|
||||
useful; the removal it implies is not. Keeping it and letting the apply forget it is what the fix
|
||||
does; not recording it would be quieter.
|
||||
- Should the host's own versions directory be cleaned by the launcher rather than by the apply —
|
||||
the one archive whose former targets are genuinely removable, by the thing that knows which one
|
||||
runs?
|
||||
- Is there a bed that replaces a host under the current rules before the live mesh does
|
||||
(the proof row of [ADR 0141](../../02-DECISIONS/0141-the-host-delivers-its-own-successor.md) was
|
||||
a single crossover, before former targets existed)?
|
||||
|
||||
## Resolved, 2026-10-02
|
||||
|
||||
mesh-host 65, merged 07:35Z. Recovered as the record above says: the operator dropped the one
|
||||
`@former:` entry from each machine's host record and pushed; the fixed host then ran on all four and
|
||||
its first apply said `forgotten mesh-host.next@former:… a former target left in place` and applied the
|
||||
rest. The open questions stand as questions for the host's own versions, not as faults.
|
||||
+62
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
status: open
|
||||
opened: 2026-10-02
|
||||
located-in: []
|
||||
fixed-by:
|
||||
amended-design:
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# 195 — Every assigned module is counted as a bus user without a credential, and the real gaps are lost in the count
|
||||
|
||||
## What was observed
|
||||
|
||||
`status`, and `plan` for any machine, open with one line before anything else:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
the bus's user list leaves out 49 user(s) the mesh has minted no credential for: <node>.<module>, …
|
||||
Each is a user that cannot connect until one is issued
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The 49 are spread over four machines and name 26 distinct modules. Checked against the catalogue on
|
||||
2026-10-02:
|
||||
|
||||
| what the module's definition says | modules |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| declares an own secret named `broker` | 1 — the route proxy, which needed a bus account for issue 191 |
|
||||
| declares no `broker` secret, and emits, consumes and serves nothing on the bus | 17 — the packet filter, the intrusion filter, the ssh daemon, the resolver configuration, the certificate authority, the broker itself and others |
|
||||
| declares no `broker` secret, and **emits events** | 1 |
|
||||
| not in this catalogue, so not checked | 7 |
|
||||
|
||||
So the line counts every module assigned anywhere as a bus user. For almost all of them that is not a
|
||||
missing credential. A module with no `broker` secret has nowhere to receive one, and the mesh already
|
||||
says an account nothing reads is an orphan ([issue 078](../078-a-delivered-secret-is-accepted-under-any-name/00-report.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
Two real gaps sit inside the count and cannot be told from the noise:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A declared `broker` secret was filled with a value that is not an account.** Before its account was
|
||||
issued, the route proxy's plan on both machines already carried a sealed `broker` file, while the same
|
||||
status line said no credential had been minted for it. A push had made the declared secret the way it
|
||||
makes any own secret. The module would have started with a credential the bus does not know, and
|
||||
nothing would have said why. It was found only because the account was being issued by hand.
|
||||
- **A module that emits events declares no way to reach the bus.** Its events can go nowhere, and no
|
||||
check refuses that.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it matters
|
||||
|
||||
**A warning that is always on is read as never on.** The line names 49 users on every `status` and every
|
||||
`plan`. An operator, or an agent, learns to scroll past it. The one entry that was a real fault looked
|
||||
exactly like the 48 that were not.
|
||||
|
||||
**The fault that was real is the silent kind.** A module whose broker credential is a generated value
|
||||
starts, fails to authenticate, and reports that three layers away from the cause. That is the failure
|
||||
the composition already refuses for a secret that was never made at all ("declared and not made"). Here
|
||||
a value was made, so the refusal never fired.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
- Should a bus user be composed for a module that declares no `broker` secret at all? If not, the line
|
||||
shrinks to the modules that can actually use an account.
|
||||
- Is a `broker` secret ever correctly made by the generic generator? If not, should composition refuse
|
||||
a declared `broker` until it is issued, or should the mesh issue it as part of placing the module?
|
||||
- Should a module that emits, consumes or serves on the bus be refused when it declares no `broker`
|
||||
secret?
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
status: resolved
|
||||
opened: 2026-10-02
|
||||
located-in: [mesh-controller internal/catalogue/filtering.go (AsNftables: the forward chain has no rule for the mesh passing through, so a relayed packet is judged by this machine's own published ports)]
|
||||
fixed-by: mesh-controller PR 209 (the forward chain relays what comes in and goes out on the tunnel), live 2026-10-02
|
||||
amended-design: []
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# 196 — The hub relays the mesh only on the ports it publishes for itself
|
||||
|
||||
## What was observed
|
||||
|
||||
A sweep of every listening port on every machine, from every other machine, on 2026-10-02. Two home
|
||||
machines, neither of which can be dialled, reach a third home machine through the hub, as
|
||||
[ADR 0007](../../02-DECISIONS/0007-connectivity.md) says every path between machines that are not
|
||||
co-located does.
|
||||
|
||||
From either of the two, the third answered on **17 of its 55** listening ports over the mesh. The hub
|
||||
itself, probing the same machine directly, reached all the ports that machine's rules open to the mesh.
|
||||
The result was the same at 40 probes in parallel and at 4, so it was not load.
|
||||
|
||||
The 17 were not a property of the target. They were exactly the ports **the hub** publishes for its own
|
||||
containers: ssh, the proxy's two, and the hub's own block of published ports. A capture on the target
|
||||
during one probe to a port that answered and one that did not:
|
||||
|
||||
- the answering one: the SYN arrives on the tunnel, reaches the container, and the reply leaves by the
|
||||
tunnel;
|
||||
- the other: nothing arrives at all, on any interface.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it matters
|
||||
|
||||
**ADR 0007's hub carries every path between machines that are not co-located, and the filter breaks
|
||||
that path without saying so.** Whether one home machine can reach a service on another depends on
|
||||
whether the hub happens to publish the same port number for something of its own. Adding or removing
|
||||
a module on the hub silently opens or closes paths between two other machines that it has nothing to
|
||||
do with.
|
||||
|
||||
It also hid behind another fault. A missing placement made the same pair look disconnected earlier the
|
||||
same day, and that explanation fit well enough that the per-port pattern was not looked for.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
- The relaying rule accepts what comes in on the tunnel and leaves on it, and leaves judging to the
|
||||
machine it is for. Should the hub also restrict relayed traffic to what that machine opens to the
|
||||
mesh? That would duplicate the target's rules on the hub.
|
||||
- No test raises two machines behind a hub and checks a port between them that the hub does not
|
||||
publish. The lab's beds have one machine per site.
|
||||
|
||||
## Resolved (2026-10-02)
|
||||
|
||||
Live on all four machines after one push each. The same sweep, from both home machines to the third
|
||||
over the mesh: 45 of 55 ports answer, the same 45 the hub reaches directly. The 9 that do not are
|
||||
ports the target opens to nobody on the mesh, and one is refused because it listens only on a LAN
|
||||
address. Nothing answers that the target's rules do not open.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
|
||||
# Diagnosis
|
||||
|
||||
*2026-10-02.*
|
||||
|
||||
**Not the tunnel.** The route from either home machine to the target is the tunnel, and traffic to the
|
||||
17 ports travels it in both directions. A placement fault would have stopped every port.
|
||||
|
||||
**Not the target's filter.** The target opens the failing ports to every address of the mesh in its
|
||||
input chain and its forward chain, the hub reaches them directly, and the SYN for a failing port never
|
||||
arrived at the target to be judged.
|
||||
|
||||
**The hub's forward chain.** A relayed packet comes in on the tunnel and leaves on it, so the hub's
|
||||
forward hook judges it. The chain the controller renders (`AsNftables`) has a default of drop, accepts
|
||||
established traffic, and accepts what did not arrive on an outward link or the tunnel. That last rule is
|
||||
for the machine's own containers reaching outward. After that come the rules for this machine's own
|
||||
published ports, each matching the **original destination port** of the connection. None of them names
|
||||
an outgoing interface or a destination. So a relayed packet to another machine's port 20000 matched the
|
||||
hub's own rule for its own port 20000 and passed. One to port 8080, which the hub does not publish,
|
||||
matched nothing and was dropped.
|
||||
|
||||
**The fix.** One rule: in on the tunnel **and** out on the tunnel is accepted. That is the mesh passing
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through to another of its machines, which filters it against its own rules. It does not widen anything
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on the hub. A packet for the hub itself is the input chain's, and one for the hub's own containers
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leaves by a bridge, not the tunnel. Both still meet their rules. WireGuard only accepts a packet from a
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peer whose address that peer is allowed to use, so in-on-the-tunnel means from a machine of the mesh.
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A controller test asserts the rule in the forward chain only, never in the input chain, and absent on a
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machine with no tunnel. It fails without the fix, and the rendered set loads with `nft -c`.
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+43
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---
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status: resolved
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opened: 2026-10-02
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located-in: [mesh-host internal/outward (Links reported only the links carrying a default route)]
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fixed-by: mesh-host PR 66 (a link backed by a physical device is named outward, up or down), live 2026-10-02
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amended-design: []
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---
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# 197 — A physical link that is down is not filtered when it comes up
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## What was observed
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A sweep of every machine's filter on 2026-10-02. A laptop-class machine connected by its radio has a
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wired port that was unplugged. Its filter guarded the radio and the tunnel, and accepted everything
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arriving on any other link:
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|
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```
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iifname != { "mesh0", "<radio>" } accept
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```
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The wired port was not in the list. Plugged in, everything arriving on it would have been accepted,
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every port of the machine open to whatever network the cable reached. That would last until the
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machine reported again and was pushed a new filter.
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## Why it matters
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**The filter's one rule about links fails open.** [ADR 0140](../../02-DECISIONS/0140-the-filter-constrains-what-arrives-from-outside.md)
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has the filter constrain what arrives from outside, and has the machine say which links face outside.
|
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Everything not named is treated as the machine's own, its containers and bridges. So a link the machine
|
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fails to name is not filtered at all. The host named only the links carrying a default route at the
|
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moment it reported. A cable plugged in later is the ordinary case for a laptop. A second wired network
|
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that never carries the default route, such as a direct link to a storage box, is never named at all.
|
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|
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## Open questions
|
||||
|
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- A virtual link that faces outside (a VPN client's interface, a USB tether that appears as a virtual
|
||||
device) has no physical device behind it. It is named only while it carries the default route. Is
|
||||
that enough?
|
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## Resolved (2026-10-02)
|
||||
|
||||
Live on the affected machine after the host was delivered and one more push: its filter now guards the
|
||||
radio, the tunnel and the unplugged wired port, before anything is plugged into it.
|
||||
+14
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# Diagnosis
|
||||
|
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*2026-10-02.*
|
||||
|
||||
**Located in `mesh-host` `internal/outward`.** `Links` read the kernel's routing tables and returned the
|
||||
interfaces carrying a default route. An unplugged port carries none, so it was never reported, and the
|
||||
controller rendered the filter around the links it was given.
|
||||
|
||||
**The fix.** A link faces outside if it carries a default route **or** has a physical device behind it.
|
||||
The kernel lists every interface under `/sys/class/net`, with a `device` entry for one backed by
|
||||
hardware. A bridge, a veth, the tunnel and the loopback have none, so they stay the machine's own. The
|
||||
wired port is now reported up or down, and the filter guards it before anything is plugged in. Tested
|
||||
with a radio carrying the default route and an unplugged wired port beside a bridge, a veth, the docker
|
||||
bridge, the tunnel and the loopback: the two physical links are reported, nothing else.
|
||||
+71
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|
||||
---
|
||||
status: resolved
|
||||
opened: 2026-10-02
|
||||
located-in: [mesh-catalog modules/dnsmasq (listens on loopback and the machine's mesh address only), the home-server's DNS (a predecessor's dnsmasq configuration the mesh did not own), the home network's DHCP (hands out the home-server as every device's DNS)]
|
||||
fixed-by: mesh-catalog PR 214 (dnsmasq listens on addresses from a setting; docker's file takes no settings), mesh-controller PR 210 (the settings verb), mesh-catalog PR 215 (unifi network DNS tools), live 2026-10-02
|
||||
amended-design: []
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# 198 — The home network's DNS server ran outside the mesh, and the mesh's filter closed it
|
||||
|
||||
## What was observed
|
||||
|
||||
Every phone on the home Wi-Fi had no internet, while a laptop on the same Wi-Fi did. The router's
|
||||
DHCP hands every device the home-server's LAN address as its DNS server. The home-server's DNS daemon
|
||||
was listening on that address, and every query to it timed out. The router itself answered the same
|
||||
query at once. The laptop worked because it resolves through its own local resolver, not through the
|
||||
server DHCP names.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it happened
|
||||
|
||||
The DNS daemon on the home-server was not the mesh's. It ran under a configuration file a predecessor
|
||||
generated, listening on loopback, the mesh address and the LAN address. The mesh's `dnsmasq` module was
|
||||
assigned to the other three machines and not to this one, so no module on the home-server declared
|
||||
port 53. Its filter opens only what a module declares, so DNS from the LAN was dropped. It started when
|
||||
the home-server applied the filter this morning, after nine hours of applying nothing
|
||||
([issue 194](../194-the-hosts-own-former-archive-stops-every-apply/00-report.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing said so. The daemon reported running, the filter applied cleanly, and the mesh had no record
|
||||
that the home network depended on a service it did not know.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why it matters
|
||||
|
||||
**A service the mesh does not know is closed by the mesh's filter, by design, and nothing asks whether
|
||||
something depends on it.** That is the right default for an unknown port. It is the wrong outcome for
|
||||
the one service a whole network was told to use. The gap is that a machine can run something
|
||||
important outside the mesh with nothing to show it.
|
||||
|
||||
**The mesh's `dnsmasq` could not have served the LAN either.** It listened on loopback and the mesh
|
||||
address only. The reach of its DNS endpoints opens the filter, but the daemon would not have been
|
||||
listening on the LAN address anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
- Should a machine report the listening services the mesh does not own, the way it reports the links
|
||||
that face outside? This one would have been visible before the filter closed it.
|
||||
- The LAN address the home-server answers on is now a setting, beside the reach that opens the filter.
|
||||
Two statements that must agree. Should reach `public` on a DNS endpoint imply listening beyond the
|
||||
mesh?
|
||||
|
||||
## Resolved (2026-10-02)
|
||||
|
||||
The home network was pointed at the gateway for DNS while the fix was built, which got the phones back
|
||||
within minutes. Then:
|
||||
|
||||
- the mesh's `dnsmasq` takes the addresses it listens on beside the machine's from a setting, with
|
||||
loopback as the mesh-wide default, so no other machine changed;
|
||||
- the home-server's layer adds its LAN address, and its DNS endpoints' reach is `public`. The router
|
||||
forwards no DNS, so that means the LAN;
|
||||
- the module and its sibling `resolv-conf` were assigned to the home-server, replacing the
|
||||
predecessor's daemon and configuration, which were kept aside;
|
||||
- the home network was pointed back at the home-server, through a new `unifi` tool.
|
||||
|
||||
Checked live: from another machine on the LAN, public names and mesh names both resolve through the
|
||||
home-server's LAN address, and the mesh and the machine itself resolve as before.
|
||||
|
||||
**One fault found on the way, and caught before it reached any machine.** A module's settings are
|
||||
merged into every mergeable file the module owns. The first attempt therefore put the new setting into
|
||||
docker's `daemon.json` as well as into dnsmasq's config, and dockerd refuses keys it does not know. The
|
||||
plan showed it before any push. The change was reverted and redone with docker's file declared to take
|
||||
no settings. The general fault, a module's settings reaching files they were not meant for, is still
|
||||
there for any module with more than one file.
|
||||
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