Every scenario that places a container runtime gives each of its machines
`egress: true` — a node that runs modules pulls images from the internet, which is what
a node does. The underlay-only scenarios (bootstrap-single, behind-nat,
segmented-and-unforwardable, the-ordinary-shape, two-on-a-segment) stay sealed on
purpose: an extra NIC would change the very reachability they are asserting about.
`images:` keeps only the mesh's own — 55 third-party entries leave whole-mesh-full
alone, and the machine fetches them itself by the digest its module.json already pins.
The whole-mesh beds also say per machine which of ours they get: novox the substrate
control plane and its own fifteen runtimes, ace its twenty-four, the two workstations
one each. That is not a lab economy. An operator's workstation holds the images its own
modules need, and giving these two the union would put some thirty gigabytes onto a
thirty-gigabyte disk.
bootstrap-with-registry.yml is deleted. It existed only to demonstrate the lab's
registry, nothing referenced it, and there is nothing left for it to demonstrate.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
The other half of the certificate split: the mesh's own authority
certifies internal names, and a name reachable from outside needs one
the world already trusts. Against a real server rather than a stub,
because what is under test is whether an order, a challenge and a
handshake agree, and a stub would be told to agree.
One assertion passes and one fails, and the failure is filed as
novox/hq 04-ISSUES/020: the authority issues a certificate and the
client never collects it. Kept as a failing test rather than deleted or
skipped — it is the reproduction, and it proves everything up to the
last hop.
The passing one is the guard that matters day to day: no certificate is
ordered for a name the mesh does not route, so a scan cannot spend an
account's rate limit.
The failure output gathers both sides before asserting. The first
version reported only what the proxy said, which made a server-side
question unanswerable — "the client never spoke to it" and "it refused
what the client said" are different faults with nothing in common.