cmd/mesh-controller/mesh_own_names_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The mesh's resolver holds only the mesh's own names (novox/hq ADR 0191): a routed public name is
+// never given a private answer, and a route's internal name is.
+func TestOnlyTheMeshsOwnNamesAreAnsweredPrivately(t *testing.T) {
+	routes := map[string]string{
+		"git.example.tld":           "10.77.0.1",
+		"example.tld":               "10.77.0.1",
+		"media.home.example":        "10.77.0.2",
+		"git.anchor.internal":       "10.77.0.1",
+		"media.homeserver.internal": "10.77.0.2",
+		"internal.example.tld":      "10.77.0.1", // the suffix as a label, not as the zone
+	}
+	got := meshOwnNames(routes, "internal")
+	want := map[string]string{
+		"git.anchor.internal":       "10.77.0.1",
+		"media.homeserver.internal": "10.77.0.2",
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("names answered privately: %v\nwant only the mesh's own: %v", got, want)
+	}
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go

@@ -645,10 +645,9 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 		}
 	}
 
-	// And every routed name → the node that serves it (novox/hq ADR 0066). Alongside the
-	// `<node>.internal` names above, so a container — or an internal ACME validator — resolves a
-	// routed name to the proxy that serves it, mesh-wide. The mesh publishes the names it was told
-	// to serve and knows nothing about what they mean.
+	// And every routed name under the mesh's own suffix → the node that serves it, alongside the
+	// `<node>.internal` names above (novox/hq ADR 0066, narrowed by ADR 0191). A public name is not
+	// among them: the mesh gives no private answer for a name public DNS answers.
 	// Kept apart from the machines, because a fact about the machines must not be handed the names
 	// the mesh merely serves (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/111).
 	machines := make(map[string]string, len(names))
@@ -659,7 +658,7 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	if err != nil {
 		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
-	for name, at := range routes {
+	for name, at := range meshOwnNames(routes, overlay.Suffix()) {
 		names[name] = at
 	}
 
@@ -740,6 +739,25 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	}, record, nil
 }
 
+// meshOwnNames is the routed names the mesh may answer privately: those under its own suffix.
+//
+// **The mesh's resolver holds only the mesh's own names** (novox/hq ADR 0191). A routed public name
+// was once published here at its serving node's private address, so an internal authority could
+// reach it to certify it (ADR 0066). Every machine's resolver then answered public names with
+// addresses only members can reach — and a resolver that also serves a LAN handed them to a phone
+// on it, which could not reach the mail server while every check, run from a member, passed. A
+// route is reached and certified inside the mesh by its internal name (ADR 0151); its public name
+// resolves publicly, for members and everyone else alike.
+func meshOwnNames(routes map[string]string, suffix string) map[string]string {
+	out := map[string]string{}
+	for name, at := range routes {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(name, "."+suffix) {
+			out[name] = at
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // routeNamesInTheMesh is every routed name and the address of the node that serves it (novox/hq
 // ADR 0066).
 //