Names, from the same graph as the network
Step 5 of the connectivity order. Every node's internal name resolves to its overlay address, on every node, computed centrally because it needs every node at once. Under `.internal`, which IANA reserved for exactly this in 2024 -- a name there can never collide with a public one, so an internal name that leaks into a public resolver fails rather than reaching a stranger's machine. The suffix is settable for a mesh that wants its own. Delivered in the same declaration as the peer list rather than a second one. A node holding the peers and not the names, or the reverse, is half on the network for as long as that lasts. This is not the /etc/hosts floor the design removes. That floor existed because a node had to reach the mesh's database before its own DNS worked -- a fallback for a circularity that is now gone. This is the mechanism: the complete set of names, generated whole and owned by the mesh, rather than a patch written underneath something else. A resolver daemon becomes necessary when names are wanted that are not one-per-node, and that is not yet true. A node resolves its own name to its overlay address rather than a loopback, because a service binding to the name it was given would otherwise listen somewhere nothing else can reach -- and the failure would appear on every other machine rather than that one. A node with no address gets no name. A name resolving to nothing is worse than no name: connecting to an address that does not answer hangs, where a name that does not resolve fails at once and says which name it was. Found while writing it: a test asserting every file in the declaration is mode 0600 would have forced /etc/hosts to 0600 and broken every lookup on the machine, to protect a file that is not secret. Verified in the lab: three machines, nine name lookups, each resolving to the right overlay address and reaching it.
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@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ func overlayPush(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) error {
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fmt.Printf("%s is not on the overlay yet — skipped\n", n.Name)
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continue
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}
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declaration, err := overlay.Declaration(n, peers, "")
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declaration, err := overlay.Declaration(n, peers, nodes, "")
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if err != nil {
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return err
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}
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