mesh/merge-gate pass: builds dnsmasq, docker, netcheck → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; 2 wait(s) for a person; every machine composes with the chan…
- The dnsmasq watch restarts only a unit that runs, without waiting for
its start; a unit stopped, starting or failed is held and said (C2).
- dnsmasq_resolve asks only an address the resolver listens on (C3).
- Tests for the watch loop keeping its budget, a watch that wrote nothing
or stopped looking, and a unit not running (C4).
- A restart is remembered as said only once emitted, restarts made before
the bundle started are said, and whether one helped is said (C5).
- docker_events reads the runtime's whole buffer: complete when it is not
full or reaches past the window, never a quiet machine read as lost (C6).
- netcheck: refused read with errors.Is; tests for addresses and ports,
and for a container named as docker knows it.
During the 2026-10-09 outage the control node's resolver stayed active while it no longer listened on
its private address, and nothing on the mesh could ask that address a question or show which sockets
were bound. netcheck_dns takes server (and tcp) to ask one resolver alone and say its response code;
netcheck_listening reads the kernel's socket tables, as ss -lunt does, with the owning program where
the tool's account may see it and a sentence where it may not.
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