75 endpoints across 50 modules, named from what each one is for rather than by a
rule: mail's seven protocol ports are smtp, imaps, submission and the rest; unifi's
nine are inform, stun, discovery, the two portal ports and syslog; minio's two are
s3 and console; the resolver's two are dns-udp and dns-tcp.
And 35 route contributions name the endpoint they serve instead of repeating its
port. A route and a listen both carried a port and nothing said they were the same
thing; now one of them does. gitea's path-level deny rule names neither, because it
is a rule about a name rather than an endpoint.
novox/hq ADR 0138. The words shipped a release ahead in mesh-controller #138 and
#139, and the control plane running today is built from that merge — checked before
this was written, because an unknown manifest key is refused and a catalogue using
one against an older control plane would stop resolving.
The module said the service must be running and nothing about boot, so the
machine's own way back in was enabled only because something before the mesh
had enabled it. All four machines happen to be enabled today; none of them is
enabled because the mesh says so, and a machine adopted tomorrow would run ssh
until its first reboot.
Not `state: running` alone for the same reason the module exists: this is the
one daemon whose absence cannot be fixed remotely.
The spec is the working system: HAL's 99-hal.conf, restated as
10-mesh.conf so lexical include order makes the mesh's answer the one
that wins while the predecessor's file is still on disk. Subsystem
stays the stock config's — first-set wins and it sits before the
Include. Port 22 from anywhere, said in listens with its reason: the
machines that need the door are exactly the ones not on the mesh yet,
and locking the operator out is the one failure a firewall must never
arrange.
jschoubben