internal/apply/apply.go

@@ -1501,13 +1501,15 @@ func containerSpecReading(r *declaration.Container, declares, reads map[string]s
 	for _, a := range r.Args {
 		b.WriteString("arg " + a + "\n")
 	}
-	// **The mesh's names are part of what a container is** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/135). A container
+	// **A container's declared names are part of what it is** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/135). What is
-	// resolves every other machine and every public name through the entries the mesh gives it at
+	// here is what the module declared for itself and nothing else: the mesh's own names are no
-	// creation, and nothing re-reads them afterwards — so a container left alone when the roster
+	// longer written into a container (ADR 0148) — they were once, every container got the whole
-	// moved is one that cannot reach anything by name, for ever, while every check reports it
+	// roster at creation and nothing re-read it, so one left alone when the roster moved could not
-	// running. That is exactly what happened when this mesh's overlay range changed: one container
+	// reach anything by name for as long as it ran while every check reported it running; and once
-	// whose image and files never changed kept an address five days out of date and restarted
+	// the roster was in this digest so that could be caught, one name moving anywhere replaced
-	// 2286 times against a database it could no longer find.
+	// every container in the mesh (04-ISSUES/151). A container resolves a mesh name through the
+	// machine's resolver at the moment it asks. What a module declares does not move when the
+	// roster does, so hashing it costs nothing and catches a manifest that changed.
 	//
 	// Sorted, so the digest does not move for a reordering nobody made.
 	hosts := append([]string(nil), r.Hosts...)