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mesh-controller/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
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jschoubben fc1417be72 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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package overlay
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"strings"
"testing"
)
func declarationFor(t *testing.T, node Node, peers []Peer) (string, []map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
raw, err := Declaration(node, peers, nil, "")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var d struct {
Declaration int `json:"declaration"`
Resources []map[string]any `json:"resources"`
}
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &d); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if d.Declaration != 1 {
t.Fatalf("declaration version %d", d.Declaration)
}
for _, r := range d.Resources {
if r["type"] == "file" {
return r["content"].(string), d.Resources
}
}
t.Fatal("the declaration has no configuration file in it")
return "", nil
}
func TestNoPrivateKeyEverTravels(t *testing.T) {
// The property the whole design rests on: the node generated its keypair and kept the private
// half, so the mesh composes a configuration for a node it cannot impersonate. A private key
// appearing here would mean the control plane had one — and a copy of its database would then
// be every node's network identity.
config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"},
[]Peer{{Name: "anchor", Key: "HUB", Allowed: "10.42.0.0/16", Endpoint: "198.51.100.1:51820"}})
if strings.Contains(config, "PrivateKey") {
t.Error("the configuration carries a PrivateKey line; the mesh must never hold one")
}
if !strings.Contains(config, "private-key "+DefaultKeyPath) {
t.Error("the configuration does not point at the key file the node wrote, so the " +
"interface would come up with no key at all")
}
}
func TestTheDeclarationUsesOnlyShapesTheHostAlreadyHas(t *testing.T) {
// Connectivity needs nothing new from tier 0, and that is worth holding: the host does not
// know what a private network is, and should not learn.
_, resources := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
allowed := map[string]bool{"package": true, "file": true, "service": true,
"directory": true, "container": true, "action": true}
for _, r := range resources {
if !allowed[r["type"].(string)] {
t.Errorf("the overlay declaration uses %q, which the host does not have", r["type"])
}
}
}
func TestTheInterfaceComesBackAfterAReboot(t *testing.T) {
// A node whose overlay only exists while something is watching is not a node that survives
// being switched off and on — and it would come back unreachable, which is the worst way to
// come back.
_, resources := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
for _, r := range resources {
if r["type"] == "service" {
if r["boot"] != "enabled" {
t.Error("the overlay interface is not enabled at boot")
}
if r["state"] != "running" {
t.Error("the overlay interface is not asked to be running")
}
return
}
}
t.Error("nothing in the declaration brings the interface up")
}
func TestTheConfigurationIsNotWorldReadable(t *testing.T) {
// It lists every peer's key and endpoint, which is a map of the mesh. Not secret the way a
// private key is, and not something to leave readable on a machine somebody else also uses.
// The peer list specifically, not every file. `/etc/hosts` is in here too and must be
// world-readable, or nothing on the machine resolves anything — a check that swept all files
// would force it to 0600 and break the machine to protect a file that is not secret.
_, resources := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
for _, r := range resources {
if r["id"] == "overlay-config" && r["mode"] != "0600" {
t.Errorf("the peer list is mode %v", r["mode"])
}
if r["id"] == "mesh-names" && r["mode"] != "0644" {
t.Errorf("the name file is mode %v; nothing on the machine could read it", r["mode"])
}
}
}
func TestAPeerThatCannotBeDialledSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
// A [Peer] with no Endpoint is correct and looks like a mistake. Saying why stops somebody
// helpfully adding one that cannot work.
config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "anchor", Key: "HUB", Address: "10.42.0.1",
Endpoint: "198.51.100.1:51820", Hub: true},
[]Peer{{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Allowed: "10.42.0.2/32", Why: "routes through this hub"}})
if strings.Contains(config, "Endpoint =") {
t.Error("an endpoint was written for a peer that has none")
}
if !strings.Contains(config, "cannot be dialled") {
t.Error("the file does not say why that peer has no endpoint")
}
}
func TestTheFileSaysNotToEditIt(t *testing.T) {
// It is replaced whenever the graph changes. An edit survives until then and vanishes, which
// is worse than never being applied — the machine works, then stops, and nothing changed
// that anybody remembers.
config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
if !strings.Contains(config, "Do not edit") {
t.Error("a generated file does not say it is generated")
}
}
func TestANodeWithNoAddressIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
// Rather than a configuration with a blank address, which wg-quick would reject on the
// machine, at boot, where the failure is much harder to see.
if _, err := Declaration(Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB"}, nil, nil, ""); err == nil {
t.Fatal("a node with no overlay address was given a configuration")
}
}
func TestOnlyAReachableNodeListens(t *testing.T) {
// A ListenPort on a node nothing can dial is a port open for no reason.
config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
if strings.Contains(config, "ListenPort") {
t.Error("a node that cannot be dialled was told to listen")
}
config, _ = declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "anchor", Key: "HUB", Address: "10.42.0.1",
Endpoint: "198.51.100.1:51820"}, nil)
if !strings.Contains(config, "ListenPort = 51820") {
t.Error("a reachable node does not listen on the port its endpoint names")
}
}
func TestTheServiceIsRestartedWhenThePeerListChanges(t *testing.T) {
// The fault this exists to catch, found in the lab the moment a third node arrived: a running
// WireGuard interface does not re-read its configuration. The file was replaced, the service
// was already running so nothing reloaded it, and every existing node kept a network that no
// longer matched the mesh — while looking entirely successful.
//
// So the declaration has to verify what the interface is *carrying*, not what the file says.
//
// And it must be declared state rather than a command: the host refuses an action arriving
// over the link (novox/hq ADR 0005), correctly, which is how this shape was arrived at. There
// is a test below that no action is ever in here.
_, resources := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"},
[]Peer{{Name: "anchor", Key: "HUBKEY", Allowed: "10.42.0.0/16"}})
for _, r := range resources {
if r["type"] != "service" {
continue
}
reflects := fmt.Sprint(r["restart-on"])
if !strings.Contains(reflects, "overlay-config") {
t.Errorf("the interface does not restart when its configuration changes: %v", reflects)
}
return
}
t.Error("nothing in the declaration brings the interface up")
}
func TestTheOverlayDeclarationCarriesNoAction(t *testing.T) {
// The link may not carry an action, and the host refuses a declaration containing one — whole,
// not in part. An overlay declaration with an action in it does not half-apply: it leaves the
// node with no network at all.
_, resources := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
for _, r := range resources {
if r["type"] == "action" {
t.Errorf("the declaration contains an action (%v); the host will refuse the whole "+
"thing and the node will have no network", r["id"])
}
}
}
func TestTheHubForwardsAndNobodyElseDoes(t *testing.T) {
// A hub carries traffic between its spokes, and Linux does not forward packets unless told
// to. Without it every spoke reaches the hub perfectly and no spoke reaches any other — which
// is how it failed in the lab, and it presents as a peering problem rather than a kernel
// setting, so it is worth being sure of.
hub, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "anchor", Key: "HUB", Address: "10.42.0.1",
Endpoint: "198.51.100.1:51820", Hub: true}, nil)
if !strings.Contains(hub, "ip_forward=1") {
t.Error("the hub does not enable forwarding, so its spokes cannot reach each other")
}
if !strings.Contains(hub, "ip_forward=0") {
t.Error("the hub never stops forwarding; a machine that stops being the hub would keep " +
"passing traffic it is no longer part of")
}
// And past the machine's own firewall. Any node with a container runtime has FORWARD set to
// DROP by Docker, so enabling ip_forward alone changes nothing — which is exactly how it
// failed, with every spoke reaching the hub and no spoke reaching any other.
// Checked as PostUp specifically. "contains FORWARD" passes on the PostDown line alone,
// which would leave a hub that tears down rules it never put up.
if !strings.Contains(hub, "PostUp = command -v iptables") {
t.Error("the hub does not open its own firewall, so a container runtime's DROP policy " +
"silently eats everything it was supposed to carry")
}
if !strings.Contains(hub, "PostDown = command -v iptables") {
t.Error("the hub never removes those rules, so a machine that stops being the hub keeps " +
"passing traffic it is no longer part of")
}
spoke, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "10.42.0.2"}, nil)
if strings.Contains(spoke, "FORWARD") {
t.Error("a spoke was given forwarding rules it has no use for")
}
if strings.Contains(spoke, "ip_forward") {
t.Error("a spoke was told to forward packets, which is not its job and widens what a " +
"compromised one could do")
}
}