A computed module says what its machine opens, so a hub can be filtered

The machine that most needed a firewall was the one that could not have one. A
hub is dialled by every node at other sites and needs its port open; a machine
that is not a hub dials out and needs nothing open. They are the same module,
and `listens` in a manifest is one answer for every machine that runs it — so
the machine a static answer gets wrong is the one facing the public internet.

A generator can now say what it opens, in a second interface rather than a
method on every generator: most have nothing to say here, and requiring an
empty method of each would be a cost paid everywhere for one caller.

The port is the one in the endpoint, which is where the interface takes its
ListenPort from. One source, so a rule set cannot open a port the interface is
not on. Open to everywhere and deliberately: a node at another site is not on
the private network until this port lets it on, so restricting it to the mesh
would be a rule that can never be satisfied by the thing it exists for.

And a generator that cannot say is refused rather than read as silence. Closing
a port on the evidence of a failure to look is how a machine is severed by a
fault somewhere else — and the machine it would sever is the hub, whose only
route to being fixed is the network it just closed.
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package overlay
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-control/internal/catalogue"
)
func networkOf(t *testing.T, nodes []Node) *Generator {
t.Helper()
made, err := From(nodes, "10.42.0.0/16", "/var/lib/mesh-host/overlay.key")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
return made
}
// A hub is dialled by every node at other sites, and needs its port open. A machine that is not a
// hub dials out and needs nothing open at all.
//
// They are the same module, which is why a static field in a manifest cannot say it — and the
// machine it gets wrong is the one facing the public internet, which is the machine that most
// needs filtering.
func TestOnlyAMachineThatCanBeDialledOpensTheOverlaysPort(t *testing.T) {
network := networkOf(t, []Node{
{Name: "anchor", Key: "a", Endpoint: "198.51.100.10:51820", Site: "one", Hub: true},
{Name: "laptop", Key: "b", Site: "one"},
})
opens, err := network.Listens("anchor")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(opens) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("the machine every other one dials opens %d ports", len(opens))
}
if opens[0].Port != 51820 || opens[0].At() != "udp" {
t.Fatalf("the port is not the one the interface listens on: %+v", opens[0])
}
// From everywhere, and deliberately: a node at another site is not on the private network
// until this port lets it on, so restricting it to the mesh would be a rule that can never be
// satisfied by the thing it exists for.
if opens[0].From != catalogue.FromEverywhere {
t.Fatalf("the way onto the private network is restricted to the private network: %+v", opens[0])
}
if opens[0].Why == "" {
t.Fatal("a port is opened and nothing says why, which is what makes a rule set unreadable")
}
// And the machine nothing dials opens nothing. Not harmless to get wrong: a rule with no
// reason is one somebody later has to work out the reason for.
quiet, err := network.Listens("laptop")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(quiet) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a machine nothing dials opened %d port(s)", len(quiet))
}
}
// The port comes from the endpoint, which is where the interface takes its ListenPort from. One
// source, so a rule set cannot open a port the interface is not on.
func TestTheOpenedPortIsTheOneTheInterfaceListensOn(t *testing.T) {
network := networkOf(t, []Node{
{Name: "anchor", Key: "a", Endpoint: "198.51.100.10:60000", Site: "one", Hub: true},
})
opens, err := network.Listens("anchor")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(opens) != 1 || opens[0].Port != 60000 {
t.Fatalf("the rule set would open a port the interface is not on: %+v", opens)
}
written, err := Declaration(Node{Name: "anchor", Key: "a", Address: "10.42.0.1",
Endpoint: "198.51.100.10:60000", Hub: true}, nil, "/k")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if !strings.Contains(string(written), "ListenPort = 60000") {
t.Fatalf("the interface and the rule set disagree about the port:\n%s", written)
}
}
// An endpoint with no port is refused rather than treated as a machine that opens nothing.
//
// A generator that cannot say what a machine opens is not one that says it opens nothing, and
// closing a port on the evidence of a failure to look is how a machine is severed by a fault
// somewhere else entirely.
func TestAnEndpointWithNoPortIsRefusedRatherThanTakenAsSilence(t *testing.T) {
network := networkOf(t, []Node{
{Name: "anchor", Key: "a", Endpoint: "198.51.100.10", Site: "one", Hub: true},
})
if _, err := network.Listens("anchor"); err == nil {
t.Fatal("a machine whose port could not be read was treated as opening nothing")
}
}
// A machine the network has never heard of opens nothing, and that is an answer rather than an
// error: a node assigned the module before it is placed is in exactly that state.
func TestAMachineNotOnTheNetworkOpensNothing(t *testing.T) {
network := networkOf(t, []Node{
{Name: "anchor", Key: "a", Endpoint: "198.51.100.10:51820", Site: "one", Hub: true},
})
opens, err := network.Listens("a-stranger")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(opens) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a machine not on the network opened %d port(s)", len(opens))
}
}