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jschoubben 4991c09c1f Convert the resolver from the module it replaces: forward, answer at 127.0.0.1, point the runtime at it
Read against hal/modules/dnsmasq-app (hal dnsmasq-app conversion, hq 08-connectivity).
On the machines it runs, the predecessor's dnsmasq answers every name: the mesh's own
itself, the rest forwarded to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, its module's defaults; resolv.conf
names it alone at 127.0.0.1, and the container runtime's dns is the machine's tunnel
address, so the host and every container resolve the world through it. The nox module
forwarded nothing, listened on 127.0.0.55 — a convention of its own beside the one every
machine already followed — and read a machines file that the module's `facts` already
asks the mesh for, so taking it would have left an adopted machine with a resolv.conf
pointing at an address nothing answered on, and no upstream for anything else.

Now the resolver keeps `no-resolv` (the documented loop — finding its own address in
resolv.conf and becoming its own upstream — stays impossible) and forwards to the same
two explicit upstreams; listens on mesh0 and 127.0.0.1, which systemd-resolved does not
hold; requires `mesh-addressing`, since its data is the mesh's addresses; and writes the
runtime's `dns` into daemon.json beside whatever the machine had (ADR 0102), at this
machine's own address — `${machine:address}`, new in the controller. The runtime is not
restarted for it: it reads the key at start, not on reload, and a restart stops every
container; on the machine this replaces the value is already there.

resolv-conf names the resolver alone, as the predecessor's file did; its placeholder second
line was a fallback nothing ever reached. resolved-split-dns follows the address. The
mesh's suffix as a local domain comes with the machines file, so a mesh name the resolver
does not know is refused here rather than asked upstream. mDNS is not carried: no module
does it and the design says mesh names are not multicast names.
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{
"module": "dnsmasq",
"version": "1",
"provides": [
"wildcard-resolution"
],
"requires": [
"mesh-addressing"
],
"emits": [
"module.dnsmasq.name.added",
"module.dnsmasq.name.removed"
],
"own-secrets": {
"broker": "/var/lib/mesh/dnsmasq/broker"
},
"claims": [
{
"name": "the-dns-port",
"scope": "node"
}
],
"listens": [
{
"port": 53,
"protocol": "udp",
"from": "mesh",
"why": "every name for this machine and what it runs — the mesh's own answered here, the rest forwarded",
"fixed": true
}
],
"resources": [
{
"id": "mesh-state",
"type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh/dnsmasq",
"mode": "0700"
},
{
"id": "package",
"type": "package",
"package": "dnsmasq"
},
{
"id": "config",
"type": "file",
"path": "/etc/dnsmasq.conf",
"mode": "0644",
"content": "# Managed by the mesh. dnsmasq's own defaults are replaced whole rather than\n# patched, because this module owns the file and a patch would leave whatever\n# was there before to be discovered later.\n\n# What the mesh computed: one wildcard per machine — its name and everything\n# under it — and the mesh's own suffix as a local domain, so a name under it is\n# answered here or not at all and is never asked upstream. Rewritten whenever a\n# machine joins or leaves, which is why the service below restarts on it: a\n# reload makes dnsmasq re-read hosts files, not its configuration, and a\n# wildcard is configuration.\nconf-file=/etc/mesh-resolver/nodes.conf\n\n# Where it answers. Both are names the mesh chose, so this file needs to know\n# nothing about this particular machine:\n#\n# mesh0 the private network, so anything on it can ask — including\n# this machine's containers. This module writes the runtime's\n# `dns` key into its own configuration file, beside whatever the\n# machine had there (novox/hq ADR 0102), naming this address: a\n# container cannot reach the machine's loopback, and a runtime\n# whose host resolves at loopback falls back to a public resolver\n# and never sees a mesh name. The runtime reads that key when it\n# starts and not on a reload, and a restart stops every container\n# on the machine, so this module orders neither: the key holds for\n# every container created after the runtime next starts. On the\n# machine this replaces the predecessor wrote the same value, so\n# nothing there is waiting on it.\n# 127.0.0.1 this machine's own use. The predecessor's resolver answered\n# here, and the resolv.conf it wrote on every machine says so;\n# that file stays in force on an adopted machine until the mesh's\n# module for it is taken, so the resolver has to answer where the\n# machine already asks or the machine loses DNS the moment this\n# module is taken. Not .53 or .54: systemd-resolved holds BOTH —\n# .53 is its stub and .54 its proxy stub — and neither is .1, so\n# the two coexist on a machine that runs it. This module used to\n# answer on 127.0.0.55 instead: a convention of its own, beside\n# the one every machine already followed. One address, this one,\n# and the modules that point a machine at the mesh name the same.\n#\n# Whatever address it listens on, it takes the machine's DNS port.\n# That is why this module claims `the-dns-port`.\n#\n# bind-dynamic rather than bind-interfaces: mesh0 does not exist until the\n# machine is on the private network, and binding an interface that is not there\n# yet fails to start rather than waiting for it.\nbind-dynamic\ninterface=mesh0\nlisten-address=127.0.0.1\n\n# **It must never read resolv.conf to find out where to forward.** Whatever\n# points this machine at the mesh writes this resolver's own address there — so\n# a resolver that read it for upstreams would find itself, and every query it\n# could not answer locally would loop until its receive queue filled. That is\n# not theoretical: it filled with 15KB of queries and every lookup on the\n# machine hung. no-resolv is what makes that loop impossible: the upstreams are\n# the two lines below, and nothing on the machine can redirect them.\n#\n# It forwards, because it is now asked for everything. The module that points\n# this machine at the mesh names this resolver alone — as the predecessor's\n# did — so the host and every container resolve the world through it. The\n# upstreams are the ones the predecessor's module shipped as its defaults. The\n# mesh's own names never reach them: the local= line in the file above stops\n# them here, answered or refused.\nno-resolv\nserver=1.1.1.1\nserver=8.8.8.8\n\n# A name without a dot is never forwarded — a bare hostname is answered from\n# /etc/hosts or not at all — and reverse lookups of private ranges are answered\n# here rather than asking the world who 10.x is.\ndomain-needed\nbogus-priv\n"
},
{
"id": "runtime-dns",
"type": "file",
"path": "/etc/docker/daemon.json",
"mode": "0644",
"merge": "json",
"into": "json",
"content": "{\"dns\": [\"${machine:address}\"]}\n"
},
{
"id": "service",
"type": "service",
"unit": "dnsmasq.service",
"state": "running",
"boot": "enabled",
"restart-on": [
"config",
"dnsmasq.fact-node-zones"
]
}
],
"facts": {
"node-zones": "/etc/mesh-resolver/nodes.conf"
}
}