Merge pull request 'Reach asks for names on a routed endpoint' (#137) from fix/reach-names-a-route-not-a-port into main

A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045):
a public service listens from the mesh, only the proxy reaches it, and it is
exposed by name. So reach on a routed endpoint asks for names, and the port keeps
what the manifest said; on an unrouted one — git over ssh, a mail port, the bus —
it governs the port, because there is no name and the port is the only way in.

Found by trying to express a real module rather than by review: routed name public
because browsers post to it, machine-side port private because it serves a
dashboard in cleartext. Under one value for both there was no way to say it, and
'public' would have reopened a port narrowed an hour earlier.

novox/hq ADR 0138, corrected in place the same day.

cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"net"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -310,7 +309,7 @@ func converge(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, yes bool, digest s
 		return "", err
 	}
 	derived := derivedFilter{rules: rules, foundation: with.Foundation, mesh: with.Mesh,
-		outward: plan.PublicDomain != "", routed: with.Routed}
+		outward: plan.PublicDomain != "", outwardLinks: with.OutwardLinks}
 	preview, saw := previewOf(node, reported, derived, plan, taken, filter, runs[filter])
 	preview += "\n\n  preview " + saw
 	if !yes {
@@ -415,16 +414,17 @@ func previewOf(node string, reported inventory.Adoption, derived derivedFilter,
 	b.WriteString("    not previewed: traffic the machine routes that is not a published port " +
 		"(a tunnel, NAT in the found firewall) — the derived filter drops it unless a module " +
 		"declares it\n")
-	// What it routes, said rather than left to the sentence above (novox/hq ADR 0137). The filter
-	// forwards the container runtime's own default pools without being told; anything else is this
-	// list, and a machine whose guests live outside those pools and names none of them loses their
-	// egress at the flip, silently, which is how this was found.
-	if len(derived.routed) > 0 {
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("    it routes: %s — kept forwarded, and their guests keep "+
-			"address and name service\n", strings.Join(derived.routed, ", ")))
+	// Which links the filter constrains, said rather than left to the sentence above (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0140). Everything arriving anywhere else is this machine's own guest and keeps working — which
+	// is what a reader most wants to know, because the previous shape of this filter cut a machine's
+	// guests off at the flip without saying so, and that is how this was found.
+	if len(derived.outwardLinks) > 0 {
+		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("    it filters what arrives on: %s, and on the private network "+
+			"— everything its own guests send keeps working\n",
+			strings.Join(derived.outwardLinks, ", ")))
 	} else {
-		b.WriteString("    it routes: nothing said, so only the container runtime's own default " +
-			"pools are forwarded — `node networks <node> <cidr>...` if its guests live elsewhere\n")
+		b.WriteString("    it has reported no link facing outside, so no filter can be composed " +
+			"for it — the flip is refused until it reports one\n")
 	}
 
 	isTaken := map[string]bool{}
@@ -485,9 +485,10 @@ type derivedFilter struct {
 	// mesh is every address on the private network; outward says the machine faces outside.
 	mesh    []string
 	outward bool
-	// routed is the networks this machine says it routes for what it hosts (novox/hq ADR 0137):
-	// their guests keep address and name service, and what they send onward keeps being forwarded.
-	routed []string
+	// outwardLinks is the links this machine reported as facing outside it (novox/hq ADR 0140).
+	// The filter constrains what arrives on them; everything arriving elsewhere is this machine's
+	// own guest and is not filtered.
+	outwardLinks []string
 }
 
 // closesOutside is what a narrowing from everywhere to the private network is called: it closes.
@@ -513,12 +514,11 @@ func (d derivedFilter) fate(r inventory.Reach) string {
 			return "stays open — the mesh's own, from anywhere"
 		}
 	}
-	// A guest on a network this machine routes asks it for an address and for names, and those two
-	// arrive here (novox/hq ADR 0137). Matched on the listener's own address: a resolver bound to a
-	// bridge in one of those networks is the one its guests ask.
-	if within(r.Address, d.routed) &&
-		((r.Protocol == "udp" && (r.Port == 53 || r.Port == 67)) || (r.Protocol == "tcp" && r.Port == 53)) {
-		return "stays open — address and name service for a network this machine routes"
+	// This machine's own guests ask it for an address and for names, and those two arrive here
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0140). Admitted by the link they arrive on, so a listener bound anywhere but an
+	// outward link keeps answering them.
+	if (r.Protocol == "udp" && (r.Port == 53 || r.Port == 67)) || (r.Protocol == "tcp" && r.Port == 53) {
+		return "stays open — this machine's own guests asking it for an address and for names"
 	}
 	for _, rule := range d.rules {
 		if rule.Port != r.Port || rule.Protocol != r.Protocol {
@@ -542,24 +542,6 @@ func (d derivedFilter) fate(r inventory.Reach) string {
 	return "WILL CLOSE — no module assigned here declares it"
 }
 
-// within says whether an address the machine reported sits inside one of the networks it routes.
-func within(address string, networks []string) bool {
-	ip := net.ParseIP(strings.Trim(address, "[]"))
-	if ip == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	for _, n := range networks {
-		_, block, err := net.ParseCIDR(n)
-		if err != nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		if block.Contains(ip) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
 // countReachable is how much of a node's account of itself names something off the machine.
 // Loopback is left out for the same reason the preview leaves it out: nothing outside reaches it,
 // so a report of loopback alone says nothing about what the filter would close.

cmd/mesh-controller/nodes.go

@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ import (
 
 func nodeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	if len(args) == 0 {
-		return errors.New("node add <name>, node list, node show <name>, " + publicDomainUsage +
-			", or " + networksUsage)
+		return errors.New("node add <name>, node list, node show <name>, or " + publicDomainUsage)
 	}
 	open, err := openStores(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -68,10 +67,16 @@ func nodeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		return publicDomain(ctx, inv, args[1:])
 
 	case "networks":
-		// The networks this machine routes for what it hosts (novox/hq ADR 0137): what the derived
-		// filter must keep forwarding, beyond the container runtime's own default pools which it
-		// allows without being told. Reports with no argument, for the same reason the domain does.
-		return nodeNetworks(ctx, inv, args[1:])
+		// Removed by novox/hq ADR 0140, which superseded the record that added it. The filter no
+		// longer names any network: it constrains what arrives from outside the machine and says
+		// nothing about what did not, so there is no list to keep. Answered rather than met with
+		// "unknown command", because this was the documented way to stop a flip cutting a machine's
+		// containers off and somebody will reasonably still type it.
+		return errors.New("`node networks` is gone (novox/hq ADR 0140). The filter constrains what " +
+			"arrives from outside this machine and says nothing about traffic that did not, so no " +
+			"network is named anywhere and nothing needs to be said to keep a machine's own " +
+			"containers reaching outward. The machine reports which of its links face outside; see " +
+			"`node show <name>`")
 
 	case "account":
 		// The operator's login on this machine (novox/hq to-be 29): what a home-scoped file is
@@ -151,67 +156,6 @@ func nodeAccount(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, positionals []st
 	return nil
 }
 
-const networksUsage = "node networks <name> — what it routes now; " +
-	"<name> <cidr>... to set them; <name> --clear to route only the container runtime's own"
-
-// nodeNetworks reads, sets or clears the networks a machine routes for what it hosts.
-//
-// The same three forms as the domain above, and the read-shaped one reports rather than clearing,
-// for the same reason: this list is what keeps a machine's guests reaching anything, and losing it
-// by asking a question is not a mistake anybody can see afterwards.
-func nodeNetworks(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, args []string) error {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet("node networks", flag.ContinueOnError)
-	clear := set.Bool("clear", false,
-		"route only the container runtime's own default pools, as a machine that has said nothing does")
-	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if len(positionals) == 0 {
-		return errors.New(networksUsage)
-	}
-	node := positionals[0]
-
-	switch {
-	case *clear && len(positionals) > 1:
-		return fmt.Errorf("give %s networks or --clear, not both: %q and --clear say opposite "+
-			"things and the mesh will not choose between them", node, strings.Join(positionals[1:], " "))
-
-	case *clear:
-		if err := inv.SetRoutedNetworks(ctx, node, nil); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s routes only the container runtime's own default pools\n", node)
-		fmt.Printf("  run `push %s` to send its filter\n", node)
-		return nil
-
-	case len(positionals) > 1:
-		if err := inv.SetRoutedNetworks(ctx, node, positionals[1:]); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s routes %s\n", node, strings.Join(positionals[1:], ", "))
-		fmt.Printf("  its filter forwards them, and their guests keep address and name service\n")
-		fmt.Printf("  run `push %s` to send it\n", node)
-		return nil
-
-	default:
-		if _, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		networks, err := inv.RoutedNetworksOf(ctx, node)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if len(networks) == 0 {
-			fmt.Printf("%s routes only the container runtime's own default pools\n", node)
-			fmt.Printf("  `node networks %s <cidr>...` if its guests live elsewhere\n", node)
-			return nil
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s routes %s\n", node, strings.Join(networks, ", "))
-		return nil
-	}
-}
-
 const publicDomainUsage = "node public-domain <name> — what it is now; " +
 	"<name> <domain> to set it; <name> --clear to take it away"
 

cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go

@@ -640,9 +640,9 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	if err != nil {
 		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
-	// The networks this machine routes for what it hosts, which the derived filter must forward for
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0137).
-	routed, err := inv.RoutedNetworksOf(ctx, node)
+	// Which of this machine's links face outside, which is what the derived filter is written
+	// around (novox/hq ADR 0140). Reported by the machine, never set.
+	outwardLinks, err := inv.OutwardLinksOf(ctx, node)
 	if err != nil {
 		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
@@ -651,8 +651,8 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 		Settings:      settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
 		Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
 		Machines: machines,
-		Suffix:   overlay.Suffix(), MeshRange: meshRange, Accounts: accounts, Foundation: foundation,
-		Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted, Routed: routed,
+		Suffix:   overlay.Suffix(), MeshRange: meshRange, TunnelInterface: overlay.Interface, Accounts: accounts, Foundation: foundation,
+		Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted, OutwardLinks: outwardLinks,
 		Given: given, Taken: taken, Seats: seats, ArtifactStore: artifactStore, Built: built,
 		BusUsers: busUsers,
 	}, record, nil

internal/catalogue/adoption_test.go

@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ func anchorRendering(adopted bool) Rendering {
 			Values: map[string]any{ExposeSetting: map[string]any{"5000": FromEverywhere}}}}},
 		Mesh:       []string{"10.42.0.1"},
 		Foundation: []int{5671},
-		Adopted:    adopted,
+		// What the machine reported faces outside, which every rule in the filter is written
+		// around (novox/hq ADR 0140).
+		OutwardLinks:    []string{"eth0"},
+		TunnelInterface: "mesh0",
+		Adopted:         adopted,
 		// Genesis takes the foundation's modules.
 		Taken: map[string]bool{"postgres": true, "lavinmq": true},
 	}
@@ -575,11 +579,13 @@ func TestAGivenMachineSideReachesTheFilterTheOpeningAndTheConsumer(t *testing.T)
 	}
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{forge}}
 	with := Rendering{
-		Ports:   map[string]map[int]int{"forge": portsAsThePlanWould(forge, given)},
-		Given:   map[string]map[int]int{"forge": given},
-		Mesh:    []string{"10.77.0.1"},
-		Adopted: true,
-		Taken:   map[string]bool{"forge": true},
+		Ports:           map[string]map[int]int{"forge": portsAsThePlanWould(forge, given)},
+		Given:           map[string]map[int]int{"forge": given},
+		Mesh:            []string{"10.77.0.1"},
+		Adopted:         true,
+		OutwardLinks:    []string{"eth0"},
+		TunnelInterface: "mesh0",
+		Taken:           map[string]bool{"forge": true},
 	}
 
 	// What the runtime is handed: the machine's own port on the outside, the container's within.
@@ -660,9 +666,11 @@ func TestALongFormPortIsOpenedWhereTheManifestPublishesIt(t *testing.T) {
 	forge := aForge()
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{forge}}
 	composed, err := r.Compose(Rendering{
-		Ports:   map[string]map[int]int{"forge": portsAsThePlanWould(forge, nil)},
-		Mesh:    []string{"10.77.0.1"},
-		Adopted: true,
+		Ports:           map[string]map[int]int{"forge": portsAsThePlanWould(forge, nil)},
+		Mesh:            []string{"10.77.0.1"},
+		Adopted:         true,
+		OutwardLinks:    []string{"eth0"},
+		TunnelInterface: "mesh0",
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

internal/catalogue/declaration.go

@@ -124,10 +124,15 @@ type Rendering struct {
 	// nothing on this node keeps them, or the mesh has no operator key.
 	Kept *KeptExport
 
-	// Routed is the networks this machine routes for what it hosts, beyond the container runtime's
-	// own default pools, which the filter allows without being told (novox/hq ADR 0137). A node-level
-	// fact: the machine routes them, and the module that loads the filter may be replaced.
-	Routed []string
+	// OutwardLinks is the links this machine reported as facing outside it, which the filter is
+	// written around (novox/hq ADR 0140). Empty means the machine has not said, and the mesh
+	// composes no filter for it rather than writing a rule around a link with no name.
+	OutwardLinks []string
+
+	// TunnelInterface is the interface the mesh's private network runs on, named here rather than
+	// imported because the overlay package rests on this one. Traffic arriving on it is the mesh's,
+	// not this machine's own guest, so the filter admits it only by a rule.
+	TunnelInterface string
 
 	// Foundation is the ports the mesh itself needs reachable on every machine, which no module
 	// declares because the foundation is not a module (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/051 and 052). The broker
@@ -350,7 +355,21 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	filtering := AsNftables(rules, with.Mesh, r.PublicDomain != "", with.Foundation, with.Routed)
+	// **A machine that has not said which links face outside is sent no filter** (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0140). The whole chain is written around those links: with none, the rule that lets this
+	// machine's own guests keep working would name an empty set, which nftables refuses, and a rule
+	// set that does not load is a machine filtering nothing while its unit reports success. Refused
+	// here, where a person reads it, rather than on the machine — and the machine keeps the filter
+	// it already has.
+	if filters := r.filtersHere(); filters != "" && len(with.OutwardLinks) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%s cannot be sent a filter: it has not reported which of its links face outside, and "+
+				"every rule in the chain is written around them. It reports that on each apply; "+
+				"`node show %s` says whether it has. Until then %s is not sent, and the machine "+
+				"keeps the filter it has", r.Node, r.Node, filters)
+	}
+	filtering := AsNftables(rules, with.Mesh, r.PublicDomain != "", with.Foundation,
+		with.OutwardLinks, with.TunnelInterface)
 
 	var out []map[string]any
 	for _, m := range r.Modules {
@@ -857,6 +876,17 @@ func mapping(written string) (outer, inner int, address string, ok bool) {
 	return outer, inner, strings.Join(parts[:len(parts)-2], ":"), true
 }
 
+// filtersHere is the module on this node that loads the machine's packet filter, or empty when none
+// does. Named rather than counted: a refusal that says which module is one step from acted on.
+func (r Resolution) filtersHere() string {
+	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		if m.Filtering != nil {
+			return m.Module
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
 // Rules is the rule set this node's filter is derived from: every module's listens, what was
 // computed for this machine, and each module's per-node exposure. The same answer whether the node
 // is adopted or converged — the one loads it as a filter, the other declares it as openings.
@@ -867,6 +897,35 @@ func (r Resolution) Rules(with Rendering) ([]Rule, error) {
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		// And how far each endpoint reaches, which says the same thing to the filter and more
+		// besides (novox/hq ADR 0138). Folded in here rather than beside: the filter has one
+		// question — from where — and a reach answers it, so giving it two inputs would let them
+		// disagree. Reaches refuses a port that both name, so this cannot silently prefer one.
+		reaches, err := Reaches(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		// **Only for an endpoint the proxy does not serve.** A routed endpoint's port is how the
+		// proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045), so `public` there asks for a public name and
+		// says nothing about the port — opening it to the world as well would undo the arrangement
+		// the proxy exists for, and would silently reopen a port an operator had narrowed.
+		//
+		// Found by trying to express a real module: one whose routed name must be public and whose
+		// machine-side port must not be. Under one value for both, there was no way to say it.
+		routed := RoutedPorts(m)
+		for port, reach := range reaches {
+			if routed[port] {
+				continue
+			}
+			source, ok := FilterSource(reach)
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %q is not a reach the filter can read", m.Module, reach)
+			}
+			if e == nil {
+				e = map[int]string{}
+			}
+			e[port] = source
+		}
 		if e != nil {
 			exposure[m.Module] = e
 		}
@@ -1035,7 +1094,11 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing to %s: %w", m.Module, to, err)
 			}
-			composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At)
+			reaches, err := Reaches(m, settings[m.Module])
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing to %s: %w", m.Module, to, err)
+			}
+			composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches)
 			out[to] = append(out[to], Contribution{From: m.Module, Values: values})
 		}
 		// Several contributions to one requirement (ADR 0094's sibling for `contributes`): an
@@ -1049,7 +1112,11 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing %s to %s: %w", m.Module, local, to, err)
 				}
-				composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At)
+				reaches, err := Reaches(m, settings[m.Module])
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing %s to %s: %w", m.Module, local, to, err)
+				}
+				composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches)
 				out[to] = append(out[to], Contribution{From: m.Module, Values: values})
 			}
 		}
@@ -1080,10 +1147,34 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 // the running mesh keeps serving the full names it has. And a labelled contribution on a node with
 // no public domain composes nothing — there is nothing to join it to — which reads downstream as a
 // route that named no host, the same as it would have before this existed.
-func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string) {
+func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string, reaches map[int]string) {
 	if values == nil {
 		return
 	}
+	// **How far the endpoint this route serves reaches decides which names exist** (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0138). Both were composed whenever the node had both domains, so every routed module got a
+	// public name and an internal one whether anybody wanted them or not — and a certificate for
+	// each, because the proxy certifies the names it is given.
+	//
+	// Joined by the port: a route entry names the port it serves and the module declares a listen on
+	// it. An entry with no port is not an endpoint's route but a rule about a name — a path-level
+	// refusal shadowing another route — and it inherits whatever that route's names turned out to
+	// be, which is why it is left alone here.
+	//
+	// Nothing said is both names, as before. That is what keeps every mesh already running identical
+	// until an assignment speaks.
+	wantPublic, wantInternal := true, true
+	if port, ok := asPort(values["port"]); ok {
+		if reach, said := reaches[port]; said {
+			wantPublic, wantInternal = WantsPublicName(reach), WantsInternalName(reach)
+		}
+	}
+	if !wantPublic {
+		publicDomain = ""
+	}
+	if !wantInternal {
+		internalDomain = ""
+	}
 	if _, already := values["name"]; already {
 		// A full name was given rather than a label. Left as-is: this is the legacy shape, and the
 		// point of the label is to not have to write the full name — a contribution that wrote both

internal/catalogue/filtering.go

@@ -230,7 +230,23 @@ const SSHPort = 22
 // It is a floor for the same reason ssh is. A machine nobody can reach is a machine nobody can
 // repair; a machine the mesh cannot reach is a machine the mesh cannot manage. Neither is a thing
 // any module asks for, and neither may be derived away.
-func AsNftables(rules []Rule, mesh []string, outward bool, foundation []int, routed []string) string {
+func AsNftables(rules []Rule, mesh []string, outward bool, foundation []int,
+	outwardLinks []string, tunnel string) string {
+	// The links that are not this machine's own: the ones facing outside, and the mesh's tunnel.
+	// Traffic arriving on any of them is admitted only by a rule below; traffic arriving anywhere
+	// else is this machine's own guest and is not something the mesh has a position on.
+	//
+	// The tunnel is named here deliberately. Treating it as "not outside" would make a port nothing
+	// declares reachable from every machine in the mesh, which is the derivation abandoned.
+	quoted := make([]string, 0, len(outwardLinks)+1)
+	for _, link := range outwardLinks {
+		quoted = append(quoted, fmt.Sprintf("%q", link))
+	}
+	if tunnel != "" {
+		quoted = append(quoted, fmt.Sprintf("%q", tunnel))
+	}
+	inward := strings.Join(quoted, ", ")
+
 	var b strings.Builder
 	b.WriteString("# Computed by the mesh from what is assigned to this node.\n")
 	b.WriteString("# Edits are lost on the next declaration; change a module's listens instead.\n\n")
@@ -252,19 +268,20 @@ func AsNftables(rules []Rule, mesh []string, outward bool, foundation []int, rou
 	b.WriteString("\t\ticmp type echo-request accept\n")
 	b.WriteString("\t\ticmpv6 type { echo-request, nd-neighbor-solicit, nd-neighbor-advert, nd-router-advert } accept\n")
 
-	// **What a machine it routes for must be able to ask it** (novox/hq ADR 0137). A guest on one of
-	// these networks gets its address and its names from this machine, over the bridge it is on, and
-	// those two questions arrive at the input chain like any other. Denied, the guest never gets an
-	// address and never resolves a name — which is not "a closed port" but a network that does not
-	// work at all, and it is this machine's own guest asking.
+	// **What this machine's own guests must be able to ask it** (novox/hq ADR 0140). A guest gets
+	// its address and its names from this machine, over the link it is on, and those two questions
+	// arrive at the input chain like any other. Denied, the guest never gets an address and never
+	// resolves a name — which is not "a closed port" but a network that does not work at all, and it
+	// is this machine's own guest asking.
 	//
-	// Only these ports, and only for a network that was named: everything else a guest might want
-	// from its host is a port somebody declares, like every other port on this machine.
-	for _, network := range routed {
-		family := saddrFamily(network)
-		b.WriteString("\t\t# address and name service for a network this machine routes\n")
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\t%s saddr %s udp dport { 53, 67 } accept\n", family, network))
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\t%s saddr %s tcp dport 53 accept\n", family, network))
+	// Asked for by the link it arrives on rather than by the address it comes from, for the reason
+	// the forward chain below no longer names an address: a range describes one machine and goes
+	// stale in silence. Anything arriving from outside, or over the tunnel, is not a guest of this
+	// machine and asks through a port somebody declared, like everything else.
+	if len(inward) > 0 {
+		b.WriteString("\t\t# this machine's own guests asking it for an address and for names\n")
+		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\tiifname != { %s } udp dport { 53, 67 } accept\n", inward))
+		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\tiifname != { %s } tcp dport 53 accept\n", inward))
 	}
 
 	// **ssh, always, and not because a module asked.**
@@ -376,26 +393,36 @@ func AsNftables(rules []Rule, mesh []string, outward bool, foundation []int, rou
 	// about the ports most worth protecting. Rehearsed on three machines: loading these rules
 	// refused a port on the host and left a published container port reachable (novox/hq issue 047).
 	//
-	// The way through is the one the system being replaced already used: deny by default here, and
-	// then explicitly allow the runtime's own networks, so containers keep working while everything
-	// else has to be asked for.
+	// **What it constrains is traffic arriving from OUTSIDE this machine, and nothing else**
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0140).
+	//
+	// It used to deny everything here and then allow the machine's own containers back by naming
+	// the address ranges they sit on — two ranges fixed in this file and the rest recorded per
+	// machine. Every way of keeping that list correct failed. A constant describes one machine. A
+	// recorded range goes stale in silence and cannot tell a network the mesh made from one a
+	// predecessor left behind. Generating it from the modules would have put half this rule set on
+	// the machine.
+	//
+	// The list should not exist, because the mesh has no position on a container reaching outward:
+	// that is not a port opened to anybody. So traffic that did not arrive from outside is accepted
+	// in one line, and what did arrive from outside is allowed only where a rule below admits it.
+	//
+	// The tunnel is not "not outside". Accepting everything off it would make a port nothing
+	// declares reachable from any machine in the mesh, which is the derivation abandoned — so it is
+	// named here beside the outward links, and traffic arriving on it meets the rules below like
+	// anything else.
 	b.WriteString("\tchain forward {\n")
 	b.WriteString("\t\ttype filter hook forward priority filter; policy drop;\n")
 	b.WriteString("\t\tct state established,related accept\n")
 	b.WriteString("\t\tct state invalid drop\n")
 	b.WriteString("\n")
-	// What the container runtime created. Without these, denying by default stops every container
-	// on the machine — which is exactly the failure the absent chain was avoiding, avoided properly.
-	for _, network := range runtimeNetworks {
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\t# %s\n", network.why))
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\tip saddr %s accept\n", network.cidr))
-	}
-	// And what this machine says it routes beyond them (novox/hq ADR 0137). Added to the defaults
-	// above, never replacing them: a machine that names one range has not stopped hosting whatever
-	// was already on the runtime's own.
-	for _, network := range routed {
-		b.WriteString("\t\t# a network this machine routes for what it hosts\n")
-		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\t%s saddr %s accept\n", saddrFamily(network), network))
+	// Only when there is a link to name. An empty set is a line nftables refuses, and a rule set
+	// that does not load is a machine filtering nothing while its unit reports success — so the
+	// chain denies rather than renders nonsense. Composing a declaration for a machine that has
+	// named none is refused upstream, so this is a floor and not a path anything travels.
+	if inward != "" {
+		b.WriteString("\t\t# this machine's own guests reaching outward: not a port opened to anybody\n")
+		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("\t\tiifname != { %s } accept\n", inward))
 	}
 
 	if len(rules) > 0 {
@@ -452,28 +479,6 @@ func AsNftables(rules []Rule, mesh []string, outward bool, foundation []int, rou
 	return b.String()
 }
 
-// runtimeNetworks are the container runtime's own networks, which must keep working when the
-// forward chain denies by default.
-//
-// Taken from what the system being replaced allows, which has been carrying this machine's traffic
-// for months: the runtime's bridge range and the range its compose files are given. A machine whose
-// runtime is configured with something else needs this to say so — which is a thing the mesh cannot
-// derive and a reason this list is named here rather than computed.
-var runtimeNetworks = []struct{ cidr, why string }{
-	{"172.16.0.0/12", "the container runtime's bridge networks"},
-	{"192.168.128.0/17", "the networks its compose files are given"},
-}
-
-// saddrFamily is the match a network's family is written with: `ip saddr` or `ip6 saddr`. One match
-// for both families is a syntax error, and a ruleset that does not load is a machine filtering
-// nothing while its service reports a fault — the same reason byFamily below exists.
-func saddrFamily(network string) string {
-	if strings.Contains(network, ":") {
-		return "ip6"
-	}
-	return "ip"
-}
-
 // byFamily splits addresses into the two nftables understands separately.
 //
 // `ip saddr` and `ip6 saddr` are different matches, and one set holding both families is a syntax
@@ -696,3 +701,154 @@ func sortedPorts(of map[int]int) []int {
 	sort.Ints(out)
 	return out
 }
+
+// ReachSetting is the settings key that says how far one of a module's endpoints reaches, per node
+// (novox/hq ADR 0138):
+//
+//	{"reach": {"3000": "internal"}}
+//
+// **One value, three readers.** Reachability used to be settled three times over: the filter read a
+// listen's source, which `expose` could override; the proxy composed a public name and an internal
+// name for every route it was given, because it could; and the certificate authority followed from
+// which names existed. Each was defensible and the combination was unstated, so "this endpoint must
+// not be public" could not be written and was therefore enforced by nothing — while a public
+// certificate for that very name was obtained anyway.
+//
+// It keys on the port the module declares, the same key `ports` and `expose` use. A route names that
+// port too, which is what lets one statement reach the names as well as the filter: of the 36 route
+// entries in the catalogue, 35 name a port that the same module declares a listen on, and the one
+// that does not is a path-level refusal — a rule about a name rather than an endpoint.
+const ReachSetting = "reach"
+
+// How far an endpoint reaches. Four values, because they have to cover everything `expose` could say
+// as well as the two names.
+const (
+	// ReachMachine is this machine only: not the private network, not the world, and no name.
+	ReachMachine = "machine"
+	// ReachInternal is the private network, under the internal name and not the public one.
+	ReachInternal = "internal"
+	// ReachPublic is the world, under the public name and not the internal one.
+	ReachPublic = "public"
+	// ReachBoth is the world, under both names — each certified by its own authority.
+	//
+	// The filter cannot distinguish this from ReachPublic, and should not try: the mesh's addresses
+	// are a subset of anywhere. What differs is the names, which is the whole reason reach is not
+	// simply the filter's vocabulary with nicer words.
+	ReachBoth = "both"
+)
+
+// reaches is every value, in the order a refusal lists them.
+var reaches = []string{ReachMachine, ReachInternal, ReachPublic, ReachBoth}
+
+// RoutedPorts are the ports a module serves through a proxy, taken from its route contributions.
+//
+// **A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it, and nothing else.** That is ADR 0045's
+// decision and it is older than reach: a public service listens `from: mesh`, only the proxy reaches
+// it, and it is exposed by name. So `public` on a routed endpoint asks for a public *name*; opening
+// that port to the world as well would undo the arrangement the proxy exists for.
+//
+// Measured before this was written, not reasoned: a module's routed name answered from the internet
+// over TLS while its machine-side port was refused from the same place. The port is not the path.
+func RoutedPorts(m Manifest) map[int]bool {
+	out := map[int]bool{}
+	note := func(values map[string]any) {
+		if port, ok := asPort(values["port"]); ok {
+			out[port] = true
+		}
+	}
+	if values, ok := m.Contributes["route"]; ok {
+		note(values)
+	}
+	for _, values := range m.ContributesMany["route"] {
+		note(values)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// FilterSource is the source a reach means to the packet filter.
+//
+// `public` and `both` are the same here. A reach that opened a port to the mesh and not to the world
+// would be `internal`; there is no reach that opens it to the world and *not* to the mesh, because a
+// filter cannot express "everyone except these" and nobody has asked for it.
+func FilterSource(reach string) (string, bool) {
+	switch reach {
+	case ReachMachine:
+		return FromMachine, true
+	case ReachInternal:
+		return FromMesh, true
+	case ReachPublic, ReachBoth:
+		return FromEverywhere, true
+	default:
+		return "", false
+	}
+}
+
+// WantsPublicName is whether a reach asks for the route's public name to be composed.
+func WantsPublicName(reach string) bool { return reach == ReachPublic || reach == ReachBoth }
+
+// WantsInternalName is whether a reach asks for the route's internal name to be composed.
+func WantsInternalName(reach string) bool { return reach == ReachInternal || reach == ReachBoth }
+
+// Reaches reads a module's per-node reach settings: declared port → how far it reaches.
+//
+// It refuses a reach for a port the module does not listen on, or a value that is not one of the
+// four — the "reads as a restriction and is none" fault this whole mechanism exists to prevent
+// (novox/hq ADR 0043/0045). It also refuses a port that `expose` names as well: the two say the same
+// thing in different words, and a module whose reach and exposure disagree would have the filter
+// following one and the names following the other, which is the very confusion ADR 0138 removes.
+//
+// A module with no `reach` setting yields nothing, and everything behaves exactly as before: the
+// filter follows the manifest's `from`, and both names are composed. That is what keeps every machine
+// already running unchanged until an assignment says otherwise.
+func Reaches(m Manifest, layers []Layer) (map[int]string, error) {
+	listened := make(map[int]bool, len(m.Listens))
+	for _, l := range m.Listens {
+		listened[l.Port] = true
+	}
+
+	exposed, err := Exposure(m, layers)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	out := map[int]string{}
+	for _, layer := range layers {
+		raw, ok := layer.Values[ReachSetting]
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		entries, ok := raw.(map[string]any)
+		if !ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %s is a { port: reach } map, and %q set it to something else",
+				m.Module, ReachSetting, layer.From)
+		}
+		for portText, value := range entries {
+			port, err := strconv.Atoi(portText)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s says how far %q reaches, which is not a port", m.Module, portText)
+			}
+			if !listened[port] {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+					"%s says how far port %d reaches, which it does not listen on — the setting "+
+						"reaches nothing", m.Module, port)
+			}
+			reach, ok := value.(string)
+			if !ok || !slices.Contains(reaches, reach) {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s says port %d reaches %v; a reach is %s",
+					m.Module, port, value, strings.Join(reaches, ", "))
+			}
+			if _, both := exposed[port]; both {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+					"%s sets both %s and %s for port %d. They say the same thing in different "+
+						"words, and the filter would follow one while its names followed the other "+
+						"— which is what %s exists to stop. Keep %s",
+					m.Module, ReachSetting, ExposeSetting, port, ReachSetting, ReachSetting)
+			}
+			out[port] = reach
+		}
+	}
+	if len(out) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}

internal/catalogue/filtering_foundation_test.go

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ func TestTheBrokersPortIsOpenedThoughNoModuleDeclaresIt(t *testing.T) {
 	// A machine on the private network, with one ordinary module rule, and nothing that mentions
 	// the broker — which is every machine.
 	rules := []Rule{{Port: 8080, From: FromMesh, Because: []string{"some-module"}}}
-	out := AsNftables(rules, []string{"10.42.0.1"}, false, []int{brokerPort}, nil)
+	out := AsNftables(rules, []string{"10.42.0.1"}, false, []int{brokerPort}, nil, "mesh0")
 
 	if !strings.Contains(out, "tcp dport 5671 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("the broker's port is not opened, so no machine could enrol:\n%s", out)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func TestTheBrokersPortIsOpenedThoughNoModuleDeclaresIt(t *testing.T) {
 // And a mesh that was never told about a broker still gets a ruleset, rather than an empty one or
 // a panic. A control plane in that state cannot issue tokens either, which is where it surfaces.
 func TestNoBrokerMeansNoFoundationRuleRatherThanNoRuleset(t *testing.T) {
-	out := AsNftables(nil, []string{"10.42.0.1"}, false, nil, nil)
+	out := AsNftables(nil, []string{"10.42.0.1"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(out, "table inet mesh") {
 		t.Fatalf("no ruleset at all:\n%s", out)
 	}

internal/catalogue/filtering_routed_test.go

@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A machine's own guests keep working when the filter it is given denies by default.
-//
-// **The forward chain allowed the container runtime's two default pools and nothing else** — named
-// in this package's code with a comment saying a machine configured otherwise "needs this to say
-// so", and no way to say it (novox/hq ADR 0137). Measured on a workstation on 2026-09-28: the flip
-// to the derived filter cut egress for five of its container networks, allocated from ranges those
-// two defaults do not cover, and for every network its test beds create. Nothing reported a fault.
-// The guests simply could not reach anything, and the machine went on saying it had applied what it
-// was told.
-func TestWhatAMachineSaysItRoutesKeepsBeingForwarded(t *testing.T) {
-	const beds = "10.0.0.0/8"
-
-	ruleset := AsNftables(nil, []string{"10.10.0.1"}, false, nil, []string{beds})
-
-	forward := chainOf(t, ruleset, "forward")
-	if !strings.Contains(forward, "ip saddr "+beds+" accept") {
-		t.Errorf("the forward chain does not accept what the machine says it routes (%s):\n%s",
-			beds, forward)
-	}
-	// The defaults stay. A machine that names one range has not stopped hosting whatever was
-	// already on the runtime's own pools, and losing those would trade one silent breakage for
-	// another.
-	for _, network := range runtimeNetworks {
-		if !strings.Contains(forward, "ip saddr "+network.cidr+" accept") {
-			t.Errorf("naming a network dropped the runtime's own %s:\n%s", network.cidr, forward)
-		}
-	}
-
-	// And its guests can still ask this machine the two questions that make a network usable at
-	// all: what is my address, and what is that name.
-	input := chainOf(t, ruleset, "input")
-	for _, want := range []string{
-		"ip saddr " + beds + " udp dport { 53, 67 } accept",
-		"ip saddr " + beds + " tcp dport 53 accept",
-	} {
-		if !strings.Contains(input, want) {
-			t.Errorf("the input chain is missing %q, so a guest on %s gets no address and "+
-				"resolves no name:\n%s", want, beds, input)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// A machine that says nothing is filtered exactly as it was before this existed.
-//
-// The change has to be additive on every machine already converged: novox has been carrying this
-// mesh's public services behind the derived filter for weeks, and a new line in its ruleset is a
-// change to a production firewall nobody asked for.
-func TestAMachineThatNamesNoNetworksIsFilteredAsBefore(t *testing.T) {
-	rules := []Rule{{Port: 443, Protocol: "tcp", From: FromEverywhere, Because: []string{"proxy"}}}
-
-	said := AsNftables(rules, []string{"10.10.0.1"}, true, []int{4222}, nil)
-	quiet := AsNftables(rules, []string{"10.10.0.1"}, true, []int{4222}, []string{})
-
-	if said != quiet {
-		t.Errorf("nil and empty render differently:\n%s\n---\n%s", said, quiet)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(said, "a network this machine routes") {
-		t.Errorf("a machine that named nothing carries a line about what it routes:\n%s", said)
-	}
-}
-
-// The two families are matched differently, and one set holding both is a syntax error — a ruleset
-// that does not load is a machine filtering nothing while its unit reports a fault.
-func TestARoutedNetworkIsMatchedInItsOwnFamily(t *testing.T) {
-	ruleset := AsNftables(nil, nil, false, nil, []string{"10.0.0.0/8", "fd00::/8"})
-
-	if !strings.Contains(ruleset, "ip saddr 10.0.0.0/8 accept") {
-		t.Errorf("the v4 network is not matched as ip saddr:\n%s", ruleset)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(ruleset, "ip6 saddr fd00::/8 accept") {
-		t.Errorf("the v6 network is not matched as ip6 saddr:\n%s", ruleset)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ruleset, "ip saddr fd00::/8") {
-		t.Errorf("a v6 network is matched as ip saddr, which nftables refuses:\n%s", ruleset)
-	}
-}
-
-// chainOf is one chain's body, so a test about the forward chain cannot pass on a line in the input
-// chain that happens to look the same.
-func chainOf(t *testing.T, ruleset, name string) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	start := strings.Index(ruleset, "chain "+name+" {")
-	if start < 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("no chain %q in:\n%s", name, ruleset)
-	}
-	rest := ruleset[start:]
-	end := strings.Index(rest, "\n\t}")
-	if end < 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("chain %q does not end:\n%s", name, rest)
-	}
-	return rest[:end]
-}

internal/catalogue/filtering_test.go

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ func TestTwoModulesWantingOnePortAreBothNamed(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a module that wanted this port open is not named: %+v", rules[0])
 	}
 	// The consequence, which is the reason this matters: removing web must not read as closing 443.
-	nft := AsNftables(rules, nil, false, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(rules, nil, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "web") || !strings.Contains(nft, "board") {
 		t.Fatalf("the rendered rule set does not name both sources:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ func TestAPortOpenToEveryoneIsNotAlsoRestrictedToTheMesh(t *testing.T) {
 func TestWhatNoModuleDeclaredIsClosed(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "web", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	// Naming the chain, not just the policy: the forward chain drops too, and an assertion on
 	// "policy drop" alone passes while the input chain accepts everything. It did, once, here.
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop;") {
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ func TestWhatNoModuleDeclaredIsClosed(t *testing.T) {
 // `flush ruleset` would do the first and not the second: it empties every table on the machine,
 // including the ones the container runtime writes for its bridges.
 func TestReloadingReplacesOnlyTheMeshsOwnRules(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, nil, false, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, nil, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if strings.Contains(nft, "flush ruleset") {
 		t.Fatalf("loading the rule set empties every table on the machine:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -160,22 +160,122 @@ func TestReloadingReplacesOnlyTheMeshsOwnRules(t *testing.T) {
 // So the chain exists and denies by default, and the runtime's own networks are allowed explicitly
 // — which is how the system being replaced has been doing it on these machines for months.
 func TestWhatIsForwardedIsGovernedToo(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "hook forward priority filter; policy drop") {
 		t.Fatalf("forwarded traffic is not governed, so container ports are open:\n%s", nft)
 	}
 }
 
-// And containers keep working, which is the whole reason the chain was left out before.
-func TestTheRuntimesOwnNetworksKeepWorking(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
-	for _, network := range []string{"172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.128.0/17"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(nft, "ip saddr "+network+" accept") {
-			t.Fatalf("%s is not allowed, so denying by default stops every container:\n%s", network, nft)
+// And this machine's own guests keep working, which is the whole reason the chain was left out
+// before — by not being mentioned (novox/hq ADR 0140).
+//
+// It used to be done by naming the address ranges they sit on: two fixed here and the rest recorded
+// per machine. That list broke a workstation's containers at a flip and could not be made correct,
+// because a range describes one machine and cannot tell a network the mesh made from one a
+// predecessor left behind. What replaced it is a single line about the links traffic arrives on.
+func TestThisMachinesOwnGuestsKeepWorkingWithoutBeingNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, []string{"eth0"}, "mesh0")
+	if !strings.Contains(nft, `iifname != { "eth0", "mesh0" } accept`) {
+		t.Fatalf("what did not arrive from outside is not accepted, so this machine's own guests "+
+			"reach nothing:\n%s", nft)
+	}
+}
+
+// No address of a machine's own networks appears anywhere in a rendered filter.
+//
+// This is the assertion that fails against the previous behaviour, and it is why it is written on
+// the text rather than on an outcome: the two ranges were a constant in this file, so nothing but
+// reading the output catches one creeping back in.
+func TestNoNetworkOfTheMachinesOwnIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, []string{"eth0"}, "mesh0")
+	for _, gone := range []string{"172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.128.0/17", "saddr 192.168", "saddr 172."} {
+		if strings.Contains(nft, gone) {
+			t.Fatalf("%q is named, and a range describes one machine and goes stale in silence:\n%s",
+				gone, nft)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+// **The tunnel is constrained, not treated as inside.**
+//
+// Accepting everything arriving over the private network would make a port nothing declares
+// reachable from every machine in the mesh — the derivation abandoned, and a rule that reads as a
+// restriction while restricting nothing. So the tunnel is named beside the outward links, and
+// traffic arriving on it meets the declared rules like anything else.
+func TestTheTunnelIsConstrainedLikeAnOutwardLink(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, []string{"eth0"}, "mesh0")
+	line := `iifname != { "eth0", "mesh0" } accept`
+	if !strings.Contains(nft, line) {
+		t.Fatalf("the tunnel is not constrained, so an undeclared port is reachable from any "+
+			"machine in the mesh:\n%s", nft)
+	}
+}
+
+// A machine with two links facing outside has both constrained. Asserted on the one line, because a
+// rule covering one and not the other would leave a machine filtering half of what reaches it.
+func TestEveryOutwardLinkIsConstrained(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, []string{"eth0", "wlan0"}, "mesh0")
+	if !strings.Contains(nft, `iifname != { "eth0", "wlan0", "mesh0" } accept`) {
+		t.Fatalf("not every outward link is constrained:\n%s", nft)
+	}
+}
+
+// A guest asks its host for an address and for names, and those two arrive at the input chain. Asked
+// for by the link they arrive on, so a resolver bound anywhere but an outward link keeps answering.
+func TestGuestsMayAskTheirHostForAnAddressAndNames(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, []string{"eth0"}, "mesh0")
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		`iifname != { "eth0", "mesh0" } udp dport { 53, 67 } accept`,
+		`iifname != { "eth0", "mesh0" } tcp dport 53 accept`,
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(nft, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("a guest cannot ask its host for an address or a name, which is not a closed "+
+				"port but a network that does not work:\n%s", nft)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// With no link named at all the chain denies rather than rendering an empty set, which nftables
+// refuses — and a rule set that does not load is a machine filtering nothing while its unit reports
+// success. Composing a declaration for such a machine is refused upstream; this is the floor.
+func TestNoLinkNamedRendersNoCatchAllRatherThanAnEmptySet(t *testing.T) {
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "")
+	if strings.Contains(nft, "{  }") || strings.Contains(nft, "iifname != {}") {
+		t.Fatalf("an empty set is rendered, which nftables refuses:\n%s", nft)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(nft, "hook forward priority filter; policy drop") {
+		t.Fatalf("the forward chain does not deny:\n%s", nft)
+	}
+}
+
+// A machine that has not said which links face outside is sent no filter, and the refusal names the
+// module that would have loaded it so the reader knows what is being withheld.
+func TestAMachineThatNamedNoOutwardLinkIsSentNoFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{
+		{Module: "nftables", Filtering: &Filtering{Into: "/etc/mesh/filter.nft"}},
+		{Module: "web", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}},
+	}}
+	_, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"}, TunnelInterface: "mesh0"})
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a machine that named no outward link was sent a filter written around none")
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"anchor", "nftables", "face outside"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+			t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say %q: %v", want, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// And a machine that names none but loads no filter is not refused: there is nothing to write.
+func TestAMachineWithNoFilterModuleIsNotRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{
+		{Module: "web", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}},
+	}}
+	if _, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a machine that loads no filter was refused one: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 // A published port is matched by what the client asked for, not by where the packet ends up.
 //
 // The runtime rewrites the destination before this chain sees it, so a rule naming the published
@@ -183,7 +283,7 @@ func TestTheRuntimesOwnNetworksKeepWorking(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAPublishedPortIsMatchedByWhatWasAskedFor(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "web", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 8080, From: FromEverywhere}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "ct original proto-dst 8080 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("the forwarded rule does not match the port a client asked for:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -193,7 +293,7 @@ func TestAPublishedPortIsMatchedByWhatWasAskedFor(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAMeshScopedPortIsMeshScopedWhenForwarded(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "store", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5432, From: FromMesh}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "ip saddr { 198.51.100.2 } ct original proto-dst 5432 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a mesh-only port is reachable from anywhere once forwarded:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -203,7 +303,7 @@ func TestAMeshScopedPortIsMeshScopedWhenForwarded(t *testing.T) {
 func TestFromTheMeshIsTheNodesTheMeshKnows(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "store", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5432, From: FromMesh}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2", "198.51.100.3"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2", "198.51.100.3"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "ip saddr { 198.51.100.2, 198.51.100.3 } tcp dport 5432 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a mesh-scoped port was not restricted to the mesh's addresses:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -213,7 +313,7 @@ func TestFromTheMeshIsTheNodesTheMeshKnows(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAMeshPortOnANodeWithNoMeshIsClosedAndSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "store", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5432, From: FromMesh}}},
-	}}, nil), nil, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), nil, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if strings.Contains(nft, "dport 5432 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a port meant for the mesh was opened to everything:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -226,7 +326,7 @@ func TestAMeshPortOnANodeWithNoMeshIsClosedAndSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAMachineScopedPortIsNotOpened(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "cache", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 6379, From: FromMachine}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if strings.Contains(nft, "dport 6379 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a port for this machine only was opened to the network:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -238,7 +338,8 @@ func TestTheModuleAskingForTheRuleSetGetsEveryModulesPorts(t *testing.T) {
 		{Module: "firewall", Filtering: &Filtering{Into: "/etc/mesh/filter.nft"}},
 		{Module: "web", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}},
 	}}
-	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"}})
+	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"},
+		OutwardLinks: []string{"eth0"}, TunnelInterface: "mesh0"})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("declaration: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -268,7 +369,7 @@ func TestAskingForTheRuleSetWithNowhereToPutItIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAMeshOnBothAddressFamiliesRendersBoth(t *testing.T) {
 	nft := AsNftables(mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "store", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 5432, From: FromMesh}}},
-	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2", "2001:db8::2"}, false, nil, nil)
+	}}, nil), []string{"198.51.100.2", "2001:db8::2"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "ip saddr { 198.51.100.2 } tcp dport 5432 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("the machines with v4 addresses were dropped:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -296,7 +397,8 @@ func TestWhatTheMeshComputesIsAppliedBeforeWhatTheModuleDeclared(t *testing.T) {
 				"restart-on": []any{"filtering"}},
 		},
 	}}}
-	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"}})
+	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{Mesh: []string{"198.51.100.2"},
+		OutwardLinks: []string{"eth0"}, TunnelInterface: "mesh0"})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("declaration: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -672,7 +774,7 @@ func TestExposureRefusesAPortNotListenedOnAndABadSource(t *testing.T) {
 // loading the rules lives on conntrack until it drops, and then the machine is reached from a
 // rescue console (novox/hq issue 047).
 func TestSSHIsOpenFromTheMeshEvenWhenNothingIsAssigned(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2", "198.51.100.3"}, false, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2", "198.51.100.3"}, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "ip saddr { 198.51.100.2, 198.51.100.3 } tcp dport 22 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("ssh is not open to the mesh, so a machine can lock everyone out:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -685,7 +787,7 @@ func TestSSHIsOpenFromTheMeshEvenWhenNothingIsAssigned(t *testing.T) {
 // And from outside as well, on a machine that faces outward — because that is the way in when the
 // private network is the thing that broke.
 func TestSSHIsOpenFromOutsideOnAMachineThatFacesIt(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, true, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, []string{"198.51.100.2"}, true, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "\t\ttcp dport 22 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a machine reachable from outside does not answer ssh there:\n%s", nft)
 	}
@@ -697,7 +799,7 @@ func TestSSHIsOpenFromOutsideOnAMachineThatFacesIt(t *testing.T) {
 // to narrow the rule to, so narrowing it shuts the port entirely — on the first machine anybody
 // adopts, reached over the network, closed by the act of adopting it.
 func TestSSHIsNeverLeftWithoutARule(t *testing.T) {
-	nft := AsNftables(nil, nil, false, nil, nil)
+	nft := AsNftables(nil, nil, false, nil, nil, "mesh0")
 	if !strings.Contains(nft, "tcp dport 22 accept") {
 		t.Fatalf("a machine with no mesh addresses has no ssh rule, so adopting it locks it:\n%s", nft)
 	}

internal/catalogue/print_rehearsal_test.go

@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ func TestPrintRehearsalRuleset(t *testing.T) {
 	rules := mustFilter(t, Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
 		{Module: "pub", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 8099, From: FromMesh, Why: "the thing it serves"}}},
 	}}, nil)
-	t.Log("\n" + AsNftables(rules, []string{"192.0.2.20"}, true, nil, nil))
+	t.Log("\n" + AsNftables(rules, []string{"192.0.2.20"}, true, nil, nil, "mesh0"))
 }

internal/catalogue/reach_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// a web module with one routed endpoint, the shape almost every routed module in the catalogue has.
+func aRoutedWeb() Manifest {
+	return Manifest{
+		Module:  "web",
+		Listens: []Listening{{Port: 3000, From: FromMesh}},
+		Contributes: map[string]map[string]any{
+			"route": {"label": "app", "port": 3000},
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func reachSet(reach string) SettingsBy {
+	return SettingsBy{"web": {{From: "node anchor",
+		Values: map[string]any{ReachSetting: map[string]any{"3000": reach}}}}}
+}
+
+// namesFor renders the contribution a routed module makes and returns the two names it carries.
+func namesFor(t *testing.T, m Manifest, settings SettingsBy) (public, internal string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{m},
+		PublicDomain: "example.test", At: "anchor.internal"}
+	given, err := r.contributions(settings, nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("contributions: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, c := range given["route"] {
+		p, _ := c.Values["name"].(string)
+		i, _ := c.Values["internal-name"].(string)
+		return p, i
+	}
+	t.Fatal("the module contributed no route")
+	return "", ""
+}
+
+// **Nothing said composes both names, exactly as before.** This is the assertion that keeps every
+// mesh already running identical until an assignment speaks, and it is the one that would break first
+// if reach were read where it should not be.
+func TestAnEndpointWithNoReachKeepsBothNames(t *testing.T) {
+	public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), nil)
+	if public != "app.example.test" || internal != "app.anchor.internal" {
+		t.Fatalf("names are %q and %q, want both composed as before", public, internal)
+	}
+}
+
+// An internal endpoint has an internal name and no public one — so the proxy serves it inside, and
+// the public authority is never asked for a name nobody wanted. This is what "must not be public"
+// could not say before.
+func TestAnInternalEndpointHasNoPublicName(t *testing.T) {
+	public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), reachSet(ReachInternal))
+	if public != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("an internal endpoint composed the public name %q", public)
+	}
+	if internal != "app.anchor.internal" {
+		t.Fatalf("internal name is %q, want app.anchor.internal", internal)
+	}
+}
+
+// And the mirror: a public endpoint gets the public name and not the internal one, so the mesh's own
+// authority is not asked to certify a name the service is not reached by.
+func TestAPublicEndpointHasNoInternalName(t *testing.T) {
+	public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), reachSet(ReachPublic))
+	if internal != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("a public endpoint composed the internal name %q", internal)
+	}
+	if public != "app.example.test" {
+		t.Fatalf("public name is %q, want app.example.test", public)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBothComposesBothNames(t *testing.T) {
+	public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), reachSet(ReachBoth))
+	if public == "" || internal == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("both should compose both names, got %q and %q", public, internal)
+	}
+}
+
+// **The filter reads the same value — for an endpoint the proxy does not serve.**
+//
+// A routed endpoint's port is how the proxy reaches it and nothing else (ADR 0045): a public service
+// listens from the mesh, only the proxy reaches it, and it is exposed by name. So on a routed
+// endpoint the reach asks for a name and the port keeps what the manifest said.
+func TestAnUnroutedEndpointsPortFollowsItsReach(t *testing.T) {
+	// The same module with its route taken away: now the port is the only way in, so reach governs it.
+	bare := aRoutedWeb()
+	bare.Contributes = nil
+
+	for _, c := range []struct{ reach, want string }{
+		{ReachInternal, FromMesh},
+		{ReachPublic, FromEverywhere},
+		{ReachBoth, FromEverywhere},
+		{ReachMachine, FromMachine},
+	} {
+		r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{bare}}
+		rules, err := r.Rules(Rendering{Settings: reachSet(c.reach)})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: rules: %v", c.reach, err)
+		}
+		found := false
+		for _, rule := range rules {
+			if rule.Port == 3000 {
+				found = true
+				if rule.From != c.want {
+					t.Fatalf("reach %q made the filter say %q, want %q", c.reach, rule.From, c.want)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if !found {
+			t.Fatalf("reach %q produced no rule for the port", c.reach)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// **A public name does not open the machine's port**, which is the case that found this.
+//
+// A module whose routed name must be public and whose machine-side port must not be had no way to say
+// so while one value drove both. Under one value it could not be expressed; the port would reopen.
+func TestAPublicNameLeavesARoutedPortAsTheManifestSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{aRoutedWeb()},
+		PublicDomain: "example.test", At: "anchor.internal"}
+	rules, err := r.Rules(Rendering{Settings: reachSet(ReachPublic)})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, rule := range rules {
+		if rule.Port == 3000 && rule.From != FromMesh {
+			t.Fatalf("a public reach opened a routed port to %q; the proxy is how it is reached",
+				rule.From)
+		}
+	}
+	// And the name it asked for is there, so the reach was not simply ignored.
+	public, internal := namesFor(t, aRoutedWeb(), reachSet(ReachPublic))
+	if public != "app.example.test" || internal != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("names are %q and %q, want the public one only", public, internal)
+	}
+}
+
+// A reach for a port the module does not listen on reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
+// written rather than accepted and ignored.
+func TestAReachForAPortTheModuleDoesNotListenOnIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := Reaches(aRoutedWeb(), []Layer{{From: "node anchor",
+		Values: map[string]any{ReachSetting: map[string]any{"9999": ReachInternal}}}})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "reaches nothing") {
+		t.Fatalf("a reach naming an undeclared port was accepted: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A value that is not a reach is refused, and the refusal names the four so a reader is one edit from
+// right. "mesh" is the tempting wrong answer, because that is the filter's word for nearly the same
+// thing.
+func TestAValueThatIsNotAReachIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, wrong := range []string{"mesh", "anywhere", "private", "true"} {
+		_, err := Reaches(aRoutedWeb(), []Layer{{From: "node anchor",
+			Values: map[string]any{ReachSetting: map[string]any{"3000": wrong}}}})
+		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "a reach is") {
+			t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as a reach: %v", wrong, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// **A port that says both reach and expose is refused.** They say the same thing in different words,
+// and accepting both would have the filter follow one while the names followed the other — the
+// disagreement ADR 0138 exists to remove, reintroduced by the migration away from the older word.
+func TestReachAndExposeForOnePortAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := Reaches(aRoutedWeb(), []Layer{{From: "node anchor", Values: map[string]any{
+		ReachSetting:  map[string]any{"3000": ReachInternal},
+		ExposeSetting: map[string]any{"3000": FromEverywhere},
+	}}})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "same thing in different") {
+		t.Fatalf("a port set both ways was accepted: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A path-level refusal carries no port: it is a rule about a name, not an endpoint, and it inherits
+// whatever that name turned out to be. Narrowing the endpoint must not silently drop it.
+func TestARuleWithNoPortIsLeftAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	m := aRoutedWeb()
+	m.ContributesMany = map[string]map[string]map[string]any{
+		"route": {"refused": {"label": "app", "path": "/internal", "deny": true}},
+	}
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{m},
+		PublicDomain: "example.test", At: "anchor.internal"}
+	given, err := r.contributions(reachSet(ReachInternal), nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var sawDeny bool
+	for _, c := range given["route"] {
+		if deny, _ := c.Values["deny"].(bool); deny {
+			sawDeny = true
+			// It keeps both, because it named no endpoint to be narrowed by.
+			if c.Values["name"] == nil || c.Values["internal-name"] == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("the path rule lost a name it shadows: %v", c.Values)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !sawDeny {
+		t.Fatal("the path rule was dropped")
+	}
+}

internal/catalogue/settings.go

@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ func UnusedSettings(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []string {
 			if key == PortsSetting {
 				continue
 			}
+			// `reach` says how far one of this module's endpoints reaches (novox/hq ADR 0138) — the
+			// filter's source, which names are composed, and therefore which authority certifies
+			// them. Validated in Reaches, so not stray.
+			if key == ReachSetting && len(m.Listens) > 0 {
+				continue
+			}
 			unused = append(unused, fmt.Sprintf(
 				"%s sets %q, and %s has no file or contribution to merge it into",
 				layer.From, key, m.Module))

internal/inventory/migrations/0044-a-machine-says-which-links-face-outside.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+-- Which of a machine's links face outside it, replacing the networks it was told to say it routes.
+--
+-- novox/hq ADR 0140, superseding 0137 and 0139. The derived filter blocked everything passing
+-- through a machine and then allowed the machine's own containers back by naming the address ranges
+-- they sit on: two ranges fixed in the controller's source, the rest recorded by 0043's column.
+--
+-- Every route to a correct list fails. A constant describes one machine. A recorded range goes stale
+-- in silence, and cannot tell a network the mesh made from one a predecessor left behind — measured
+-- on the control-node, where six ranges fall outside the constants and two of the six belong to
+-- services the mesh does not run. Generating the list from the modules put half the rule set on the
+-- machine.
+--
+-- The list should not exist, because the mesh has no position on a container reaching outward: that
+-- is not a port opened to anybody. The filter constrains what arrives from OUTSIDE the machine and
+-- says nothing about what did not, which needs one fact instead of a list — which links "outside"
+-- arrives on.
+--
+-- Reported by the machine on every apply, never recorded by hand, so it cannot go stale. Null for a
+-- machine that has not reported yet; the mesh composes no filter for such a machine and leaves the
+-- one it has, because a rule written around a link with no name is a rule set that does not load.
+alter table node add column outward_links jsonb;
+
+-- What 0043 recorded is not migrated into it. The ranges answered a question that no longer exists,
+-- and every machine that named one keeps working without it: the traffic those ranges allowed is now
+-- allowed by not having arrived from outside.
+alter table node drop column routed_networks;

internal/inventory/nodes.go

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"net"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -519,37 +518,28 @@ func (i *Inventory) PublicDomainOf(ctx context.Context, name string) (string, er
 	return *domain, nil
 }
 
-// SetRoutedNetworks records the networks this machine routes for what it hosts, beyond the
-// container runtime's own default pools.
+// RecordOutwardLinks keeps the links a machine reported as facing outside it.
 //
-// A node-level fact (novox/hq ADR 0137), beside the node's public domain: the machine routes them,
-// not whichever module loads the filter, so swapping that module must not lose them. Added to the
-// runtime's defaults rather than replacing them, so a machine that says one range does not lose the
-// ranges its containers were already using. An empty list clears it.
+// A reported fact, not a setting (novox/hq ADR 0140). It replaces the networks a machine used to be
+// told to say it routes: the filter blocked everything passing through and then allowed the machine's
+// own containers back by naming their address ranges, and every way of keeping that list correct
+// failed — a constant describes one machine, and a recorded range goes stale in silence. The filter
+// now constrains what arrives from outside and says nothing about what did not, and the one thing it
+// needs is which links "outside" arrives on. The machine reads that from its own routing table on
+// every apply, so it cannot go stale and nobody types it.
 //
-// Each entry is checked as a CIDR here rather than at render time: an address that does not parse
-// becomes a line nftables refuses, and a refused ruleset is a machine that filters nothing while
-// its service reports a configuration fault.
-func (i *Inventory) SetRoutedNetworks(ctx context.Context, name string, networks []string) error {
-	node, err := i.NodeByName(ctx, name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
+// An empty list clears it, which is what a machine with no route off itself reports. The mesh then
+// composes no filter for that machine at all.
+func (i *Inventory) RecordOutwardLinks(ctx context.Context, id string, links []string) error {
 	var kept []string
-	for _, n := range networks {
-		n = strings.TrimSpace(n)
-		if n == "" {
-			continue
+	for _, name := range links {
+		if name = strings.TrimSpace(name); name != "" {
+			kept = append(kept, name)
 		}
-		if _, _, err := net.ParseCIDR(n); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a network in CIDR form (10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16): %w",
-				n, err)
-		}
-		kept = append(kept, n)
 	}
 	if len(kept) == 0 {
-		_, err = i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
-			`update node set routed_networks = null where id = $1`, node.ID)
+		_, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
+			`update node set outward_links = null where id = $1`, id)
 		return err
 	}
 	body, err := json.Marshal(kept)
@@ -557,15 +547,16 @@ func (i *Inventory) SetRoutedNetworks(ctx context.Context, name string, networks
 		return err
 	}
 	_, err = i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
-		`update node set routed_networks = $2 where id = $1`, node.ID, string(body))
+		`update node set outward_links = $2 where id = $1`, id, string(body))
 	return err
 }
 
-// RoutedNetworksOf is the networks a machine routes for what it hosts, empty when it has named none.
-func (i *Inventory) RoutedNetworksOf(ctx context.Context, name string) ([]string, error) {
+// OutwardLinksOf is the links a machine reported as facing outside it, empty when it has reported
+// none — which is a machine the mesh composes no filter for.
+func (i *Inventory) OutwardLinksOf(ctx context.Context, name string) ([]string, error) {
 	var body []byte
 	err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx,
-		`select routed_networks from node where name = $1`, name).Scan(&body)
+		`select outward_links from node where name = $1`, name).Scan(&body)
 	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrNoSuchNode, name)
 	}
@@ -575,11 +566,11 @@ func (i *Inventory) RoutedNetworksOf(ctx context.Context, name string) ([]string
 	if len(body) == 0 {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
-	var networks []string
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &networks); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the networks recorded for %s are not a list: %w", name, err)
+	var links []string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &links); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the outward links recorded for %s are not a list: %w", name, err)
 	}
-	return networks, nil
+	return links, nil
 }
 
 // RecordOverlayKey keeps the public half a node generated.

internal/link/enrolment.go

@@ -301,6 +301,17 @@ func (e Enrolment) Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) (news bool, err err
 			return false, err
 		}
 	}
+	// Which of its links face outside (novox/hq ADR 0140), whenever it says so. Recorded on every
+	// report that carries it, adopted or converged, because the filter the mesh composes is written
+	// around it — and never cleared by a report that carries none, which is every bare word that the
+	// node is there. A machine whose routing table it could not read reports nothing rather than
+	// guessing, and keeps whatever it last said; a machine with genuinely no route off itself is one
+	// the mesh composes no filter for at all.
+	if len(report.Outward) > 0 {
+		if err := e.Inventory.RecordOutwardLinks(ctx, node.ID, report.Outward); err != nil {
+			return false, err
+		}
+	}
 	// What it says about the tunnel it carried (novox/hq ADR 0105), whenever it says it.
 	if report.Tunnel != nil {
 		if err := e.Inventory.RecordCarriedTunnel(ctx, node.ID, inventory.Carried{

internal/link/protocol.go

@@ -170,6 +170,20 @@ type Report struct {
 	// Firewall is the firewall found on the machine — "ufw" or "none" — and empty on a node that
 	// was never asked, which is every converged one.
 	Firewall string `json:"firewall,omitempty"`
+
+	// Outward is the links on this machine that face outside it — the ones carrying a default route
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0140). Every node reports it, adopted or converged, because the filter the mesh
+	// composes for it is written around these and nothing else.
+	//
+	// **It replaces a list of addresses.** The filter used to block everything passing through the
+	// machine and then allow the machine's own containers back by naming the ranges they sit on. A
+	// range describes one machine and goes stale in silence; the link carrying the default route is
+	// read afresh on every report and does not change when a module is added or removed.
+	//
+	// Empty means the machine has not said. The mesh composes no filter for such a machine and
+	// leaves the one it has: a rule written around a link with no name is a rule set that does not
+	// load, and that is a machine filtering nothing while its unit reports success.
+	Outward []string `json:"outward,omitempty"`
 	// Reachable is what can be reached on the machine now: every listening socket and every
 	// published container port. Only an adopted node reports it; it is what converging previews.
 	Reachable []Reach `json:"reachable,omitempty"`

internal/link/serve.go

@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ func (s *Server) reported(ctx context.Context, m Control) {
 // whenever it arrives, which is the behaviour the mesh has had all along.
 func staleAgainst(report Report) string {
 	if report.Rekey != nil || report.Tunnel != nil || len(report.Held) > 0 ||
-		report.Firewall != "" || len(report.Reachable) > 0 || len(report.Carried) > 0 {
+		report.Firewall != "" || len(report.Reachable) > 0 || len(report.Carried) > 0 ||
+		len(report.Outward) > 0 {
 		return ""
 	}
 	return report.Declared