ADR 0145: a module checks what the mesh claims is reachable, and it checks itself

The mesh asserts three things are callable and has never checked any of them. A
module on every machine serves an endpoint of its own and dials every other
machine's, from the position the callers are in — not the host and not the control
plane, both of which reach those addresses by paths no ordinary caller uses and
would have passed throughout the outage.

Its probe is its own endpoint, declared reachable over the private network, so it
is admitted by exactly the rule that governs every internally-exposed service. The
tempting target is a service every machine has, and those are the ones never closed
— ssh above all — which would have passed for all eleven hours.

Resolution and connection reported separately, because they have different owners.
One failure is not a fault, and the count travels with the result. It reports and
repairs nothing.

Built on a scheduled container, a rendered roster fact and a bundle: no new
vocabulary. Adopted on its own merits, which is what 0143 was not.
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exposed publicly. The filter had the second and third and expressed the first as a list of addresses that
no container could match.
**The question this issue is actually about is still open.** Nothing in the mesh would have said a grant
had stopped working, and nothing does now. That is not answered by a configuration fix, and it should not
be answered by a mechanism adopted as a remedy for one.
**And then the question this issue is actually about was answered on its own terms.**
[ADR 0145](../../02-DECISIONS/0145-a-module-checks-what-the-mesh-claims-is-reachable.md): a module on
every machine serves an endpoint of its own and dials every other machine's, from the position the
callers are in. Its probe is its own endpoint declared reachable over the private network, so it is
admitted by exactly the rule that governs every internally-exposed service and fails when that rule is
wrong — where a probe on a service every machine has would have passed for all eleven hours, because the
services every machine has are the ones never closed.
Adopted on its merits rather than as the remedy for a configuration error, which is what 0143 was and
why it went. The module is written and merged; it is not yet assigned, so every machine currently reads
unchecked.
## Open questions