test/integration/mesh.test.ts

@@ -1304,3 +1304,57 @@ test("a container reaches another machine by the name the mesh gave it", {
   await mesh("unassign laptop resolves");
   await mesh("push laptop");
 });
+
+test("every name under a machine resolves to that machine", {
+  skip, timeout: 900_000,
+}, async () => {
+  // Services are named under the machine they run on — postgres.novox.internal,
+  // plex.ace.internal. The first label is the service and the rest is the node, so what must
+  // resolve is anything under a node's name. What routes it once it arrives is a proxy's, and
+  // stays separate.
+  //
+  // The mesh writes the data and runs no daemon: a resolver is third-party software, and the
+  // mesh has no business choosing one. So what is checked here is the mesh's half — that the
+  // data is right, complete, and follows the machines.
+  await mesh("assign anchor mesh-resolver");
+  await mesh("assign laptop mesh-resolver");
+  await mesh("push");
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 15_000));
+
+  for (const machine of ["anchor", "laptop"]) {
+    const written = await must(machine, `cat /etc/mesh-resolver/nodes.conf`);
+
+    // A wildcard per machine, matching the name and everything under it. Both machines get the
+    // whole mesh: a node resolves every other node, and itself.
+    for (const node of ["anchor", "laptop"]) {
+      assert.match(written, new RegExp(`address=/${node}\\.internal/10\\.42\\.0\\.\\d+`),
+        `${machine} cannot resolve names under ${node}:\n${written}`);
+    }
+
+    // And the addresses agree with what the machine's own hosts file says. Two accounts of where
+    // a machine is, disagreeing, would be worse than either alone — and this is the one place
+    // they could drift, because they are generated separately.
+    const hosts = await must(machine, `getent hosts anchor.internal | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f1`);
+    assert.match(written, new RegExp(`address=/anchor\\.internal/${hosts.trim().replace(/\./g, "\\.")}`),
+      `the resolver data and the hosts file disagree about where anchor is:\n${written}`);
+  }
+
+  // It follows the machines. A node leaving the private network must stop being answered for,
+  // because a wildcard pointing at nothing resolves and then hangs — where an unresolvable name
+  // fails at once and says which name it was.
+  await mesh("unassign laptop networking");
+  await mesh("push anchor");
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 15_000));
+
+  const after = await must("anchor", `cat /etc/mesh-resolver/nodes.conf`);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(after, /address=\/laptop\.internal\//,
+    `a machine that left the private network is still answered for:\n${after}`);
+  assert.match(after, /address=\/anchor\.internal\//,
+    `the machine that stayed lost its own name:\n${after}`);
+
+  await mesh("assign laptop networking");
+  await mesh("unassign anchor mesh-resolver");
+  await mesh("unassign laptop mesh-resolver");
+  await mesh("push");
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 15_000));
+});